Ken Olsen
IRL Name:
Ken Olsen
Biography:
Ken Olsen was born on February 20, 1926 at Stratford, Connecticut. In his youth, Ken Olsen worked summers in a machine shop and fixed radios in his basement. After serving in the Navy between 1944 and 1946, he attended MIT and then worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he developed the Memory Test Computer and designed some of the hardware on the TX-0 and TX-2 machines, early transistor-based large-scale mainframe computers.
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