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Kenneth Olsen, 84, a computer industry pioneer and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died Sunday, according to Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., where he was a trustee and benefactor.
Olsen was born in Bridgeport, Conn. With undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he founded DEC in 1957 in an old mill in Maynard, Mass. It grew from three employees to 125,000 workers in 86 countries.
The company pioneered the mini-computer and set industry standards in program languages, operating systems, networking architectures, applications software, computer peripherals, and component and circuit technology. Compaq Computer Corp. acquired DEC in 1998. The Associated Press
