• quotations related to Ken Olsen. 1988 Transcript of an Oral History Interview with Ken Olsen Ken Olsen, New England Economic Adventure Ken Olsen, co-founder of...
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    the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until he was forced to resign in 1992,...
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    Susan Marie Olsen (born August 14, 1961) is an American actress and former radio host. Olsen is known for her role as Cindy Brady, the youngest Brady child...
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    Hindle, DEC senior VP (2008). "Ken's Leadership". Glenn Rifkin (1988). The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation...
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    started to convert the Whirlwind design to a transistorized form, led by Ken Olsen and known as the TX-0. TX-0 was very successful and plans were made to...
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  • Ken Bjørntvedt Olsen (born 1 October 1967) is a retired Norwegian football striker. From Sandefjord BK, after a spell in Danish Vejle BK he returned to...
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  • Figueres Olsen (born 1954), 42nd President of Costa Rica Karen Olsen Beck (born 1933), Danish American-Costa Rican diplomat and politician Ken Olsen (1926–2011)...
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    Laboratory under Professor Ken Stevens, where he wrote the first analysis by synthesis program.[citation needed] The DEC founders Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson...
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  • "General Shipboard Policy Information". United States Coast Guard – Ken Olsen. "Report of Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Fire...
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  • usability. The Ken Olsen Science Center, named for the founder of Digital Equipment Corporation and long-time Gordon College Board member, Ken Olsen, is an 80...
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  • Hasegawa Junius Morgan Katharine Hepburn Katharine Lee Bates Katie Nolan Ken Olsen Kevin Eastman Leonard Bernstein Leonard Nimoy Lilla Cabot Perry Lizzie...
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    employees of Digital Equipment Corporation following complaints to CEO Ken Olsen that employees had been having difficulty securing mortgages. "For DCU's...
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  • Masters in Physics in 1951 and 1952 respectively. In 1957, Anderson and Ken Olsen, his boss at Lincoln Laboratory, decided to start their own firm. They...
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  • earlier VAX machines, which had a thriving market of 3rd party products. Ken Olsen was quoted as saying "We spent millions developing this bus. I don't know...
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    Corporation CEO Ken Olsen is quoted as saying "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." Despite Olsen's warning, in the...
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    branch instructions as a basic set. Wesley A. Clark designed the logic and Ken Olsen oversaw the engineering development. Initially a vacuum-tube computer...
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  • ultimate entrepreneur: the story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation, chronicles the experiences of Ken Olsen racing to design minicomputers at...
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    progressed to the point of producing several detailed architecture documents. Ken Olsen was not supportive of this project, feeling it did not offer sufficient...
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    would become one of DEC's major competitors through the 1970s and 1980s. Ken Olsen, president and founder of DEC, was more interested in a small 8-bit machine...
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  • make a native VAX Unix product available to its customers; DEC founder Ken Olsen agreed. DEC's first native UNIX product was V7M (for modified) or V7M11...
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  • Systems (XDS) RAD-75, RBM-1 and CP-V operating systems. He was recruited by Ken Olsen to join Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1974. He moved from Los...
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    tradition, which also included free manuals for anyone who asked during the Ken Olsen years) by schools, university departments, and research laboratories....
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  • 048 12-bit words, and the first LINC was built in 1962. DEC's founder, Ken Olsen, had worked with both it and a still earlier computer, the 18-bit 64,000-word...
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  • Royal McBee LGP-30 digital computer in 1958 for US$25,000. Within a year, Ken Olsen, president of the newly formed Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), approached...
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    influenced by Georges Doriot, who offered Eyring a chance to work with him and Ken Olsen, the founder of Digital Equipment Company. Eyring chose instead to pursue...
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  • private boarding school. In 1985, Digital Equipment Corporation co-founder Ken Olsen donated a number of Digital personal computers to Brewster. The computers...
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  • rate of return of 101%). Until his death, Doriot remained friends with Ken Olsen, Digital's founder. ARDC continued investing until 1971 with the retirement...
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    Grace Hopper 1995: Jay Wright Forrester 1996: Mitch Kapor, Ken Olsen 1997: Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, John Backus, Steve Wozniak 1998: Gene Amdahl, Donald...
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  • Jimmy Olsen is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Olsen is most often portrayed as a young photojournalist...
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    (Bridgeport) Victor Niederhoffer (Weston) Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford) Ken Olsen (Stratford) Eliphalet Remington (Suffield) Stephen S. Roach (New Canaan)...
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