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- (FORTUNE Magazine) – THOUGH he has not yet become a household name, Kenneth Harry Olsen is arguably the most successful entrepreneur in the history of American business. In 29 years he has taken Digital Equipment Corp. from nothing to $7.6 billion in annual revenues.
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Kenneth Harry Olsen (February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and his brother Stan Olsen.
Feb 17, 2011 · Digital Equipment Corp. had microprocessor technology, but its business model could not profitably sell a computer for less than $50,000. The technology trapped in a high-cost business model had no impact on the world, and in fact, the world ultimately killed Digital.
Feb 8, 2011 · DEC’s Ken Olsen: 1926-2011. “They were the Apple of their day” — Dan (“VisiCalc”) Bricklin. From the Oct. 27, 1986 Fortune cover story that named Olsen America’s Most Successful ...
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Feb 8, 2011 · Ken Olsen, who helped reshape the computer industry as a founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation, at one time the world’s second-largest computer company, died on Sunday. He was 84.
Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC / dɛk / ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957.
Feb 9, 2011 · Kenneth Olsen, who died Sunday at the age of 84, founded Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the industry’s most profitable companies in the 1980s.
Oct 6, 1989 · But some say Olsen, whose small stake in the public company is worth several hundred million dollars, has barely changed.
