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Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur. He started Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957 with Harlan Anderson.[4] For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for Ken Olsen .
Feb 8, 2011 · Kenneth Olsen, a computer industry pioneer and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., has died. He was 84. His death Sunday was announced by Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., where he was a trustee ...
Ken Olsen was thus labelled “America’s Most Successful Entrepreneur” in an October 1986 Fortune magazine cover story. He was the subject of the 1988 biography The Ultimate Entrepreneur. The company also had a unique engineering-culture, which Ed Schein chronicled in his book DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC.
Feb 13, 2011 · Kenneth Harry Olsen was born Feb. 20, 1926, in Bridgeport, Conn. His father designed machine tools, and Mr. Olsen and his brothers spent hours tinkering with gadgets in the family basement.
Feb 8, 2011 · Tue 8 Feb 2011 // 08:54 UTC. Obituary Ken Olsen, the founder of minicomputer and client/server company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) died on Sunday. He was 84 years-old. Olsen started out a maverick, pioneered and drove the minicomputer and supermini revolutions, and then became a dinosaur. But unlike many other senior DEC executives he ...
Kenneth Olsen Obituary. We are sad to announce that on January 16, 2024 we had to say goodbye to Kenneth Olsen (Green Bay, Wisconsin), born in Elmhurst, Illinois. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Kenneth Olsen to show support. He was loved and cherished by many people including : his parents ...
Feb 6, 2011 · Military Service: U.S. Navy. Kenneth H. Olsen, described by Fortune magazine in 1986 as the "most successful entrepreneur in the history of American business," invented vital computer components and cofounded Digital Equipment Corporation. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, Olsen began his career working summers in a machine shop.
