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Kenneth Harry Olsen (February 20, 1926 [2] – February 6, 2011 [3]) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen.
The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until he was forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline. The company produced many different product lines over its history. It is best known for the work in the minicomputer market starting in the early 1960s.
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.
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 ...
Ken Olsen – (1926–2011) American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation Tinius Olsen – (1845–1932) Norwegian-born American engineer and inventor Charles J. Pedersen – (1904–1989) American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers
Kenneth Lee Olson (May 26, 1945 – May 13, 1968) was a United States Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He received the award for sacrificing his own life during the Vietnam War by throwing himself over an activated hand grenade , saving the lives of fellow soldiers ...
Gregory Walter Olsen (born March 11, 1985) is an American football sportscaster and former tight end who played for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 2007 NFL draft . [ 1 ]
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]