[Info-vax] Ken Olsen

[JF Mezei]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/02/ken_olsen_cofou.html

Ken Olsen, who cofounded Digital Equipment Corp. and built it into the
second-largest computer company in the nation by creating small but
powerful machines called "minicomputers," died Sunday.

He was 84 and his death was announced by Gordon College in Wenham, for
which Mr. Olsen was a longtime trustee and benefactor. The college did
not provide a cause of death or information about where Mr. Olsen was
living.