Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dead at age 84


Business | 206691 hits | Feb 08 6:58 pm | Posted by: wildrosegirl
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Kenneth Olsen, a computer industry pioneer and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., has died. He was 84.

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:47 pm
    RIP. Most won't recognize his name, but he did as much for computer technology as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

  2. by Anonymous
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:07 pm
    And Olsen is still remembered for his 1977 prediction that "there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." He later insisted the quote was taken out of context and that he simply meant he could not envision a day when computers would run people's lives.


    I don't think anyone could have envisioned the effect Farmville would have on some people.

  3. by avatar PostFactum
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:19 pm
    RIP. Thanks to him.

  4. by avatar bootlegga
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:56 pm
    RIP

  5. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:22 pm
    Reminds me of how the ignorant kids these days laugh at me when I tell them one of the first computers I worked on was a Digital. After I educate them on how 'Digital' was a company that made computers then I go on and tell them I also used to play with my Wang. :wink:

  6. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:24 pm
    I used to have some bad Wyses' too Bart.

  7. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:06 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    I used to have some bad Wyses' too Bart.


    You mean the old orange screen mugs? I hated those things. But about ten years back WYSE came out with what are probably still the best thin client terminal emulators I've ever seen. I love those things.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:19 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    I used to have some bad Wyses' too Bart.


    You mean the old orange screen mugs? I hated those things. But about ten years back WYSE came out with what are probably still the best thin client terminal emulators I've ever seen. I love those things.

    It was a pun. 'Vices', playing with your 'Wang' . . .they are never funny if I have to explain them. ;)

    Yea, their thin clients were pretty good. At that time, I was using IBM thin clients, and they were pretty decent too.



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