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Olsen was the subject of a 1988 biography, The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation written by Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar. In 1993, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Olsen their IEEE Founders Medal. [citation needed]
Ken Olsen, the MIT-educated inventor who started Digital Equipment Corp. with $70,000 in venture capital in the 1950s and built it into a company with billions of dollars in sales and more than ...
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC / d ɛ k / ⓘ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957.
The ultimate entrepreneur: the story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation entry in Google Books, by Glenn Rifkin, George Harrar, 1988, Chicago : Contemporary Books, ISBN 978-1-55958-022-9 The Soul of a New Machine entry in Google Books, by Tracy Kidder, Reprint from 1981, Back Bay Books, 2000.
Christy was born Ken Olsen to Gertie Olsen [5] and her husband in the Bronx, New York. Christy was raised in the Bronx, where he attended Catholic school at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. [5] He began dressing in semi-drag and going out in public at age 14. [5]
The DEC founders Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson recruited him for their new company in 1960, where he designed the I/O subsystem of the PDP-1, including the first UART. Bell was the architect of the PDP-4, and PDP-6. Other architectural contributions were to the PDP-5 and PDP-11 Unibus and General Registers architecture. [5]
Ken Ober (July 3, 1957 – November 15, 2009) was an American game show host, comedian, and actor. Early life and career ... (Olsen had previously appeared on an ...
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