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Harlan Anderson (October 15, 1929 - January 30, 2019) was an American engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which later became the second largest computer company in the world.
May 29, 2024 · Digital at its peak was the second largest computer company in the world. Early on, Anderson was active in professional societies and was General Chairman of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference in 1966, the largest professional meeting and exhibition of computer technology at the time.
Harlan Anderson (born 1929) is an engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) which at one time was the second largest computer company in the world.
Harlan Anderson. Born: October 15, 1929, Freeport, Illinois. While in college in 1950, Harlan Anderson first became interested in computers while taking programming courses for the Illiac I—a large custom-built mainframe machine at the University of Illinois under construction at the time.
Ken Olsen, 31, and Harlan Anderson, 27, founded DEC in 1957. Just eleven years later, DEC led the minicomputer market. The company made test equipment logic circuits for its first three years, not creating a computer, the PDP-1, until 1960.
Oral History of Harlan Anderson. Gardner Hendrie: We have here with us Harlan Anderson, who was one of the two cofounders of Digital Equipment Corporation and he has gracefully agreed to do an oral history for the Computer History Museum, thank you very much Harlan.
Harlan E. Anderson became interested in computers while taking programming courses for the ILLIAC I computer, which was under construction on campus in the 1950s. After graduating from illinois, Anderson joined the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Cambridge, where he worked with Ken Olsen.
