Friday, 11 February 2011
So long then, Ken Olsen
Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, passed away aged 84 on Sunday 7th February. Read a short obituary here. I used to consider DEC as the nimble young upstart snapping at IBM's heels and making computing affordable. My first real computing experience was on the undergraduate DEC-10 system (running TOPS10) at Leeds - and it shaped my subsequent career, though various PDP-8 and PDP-11 minis featured even before that. RIP Ken.
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Thanks for bringing my attention to that. I too remember the old DEC machines fondly
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