Kenneth Olsen, computer industry pioneer and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), died Sunday. He was 84. Olsen launched DEC in 1957 in Maynard Mass. Throughout the 70’s and early 80’s, the company was considered an icon in technology circles,...
In the 1960s and 1970s, DEC played a central role in creating the market for "minicomputers," powerful, refrigerator-sized machines that appealed to scientists, engineers and other number crunchers who did not need the bigger, multimillion-dollar mainframes used by big corporations. At its peak in the 1980s, DEC was the...
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