What is Ken Olsen?
{{redlinks|date=January 2012}} {{Infobox person |name = Kenneth Harry Olsen |image = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|2|20}} |birth_place = Bridgeport, Connecticut |death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|2|6|1926|2|20}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20030941-265.html |title=Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, dead at 84 |access-date=2011-08-19 |archive-date=2013-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030155931/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20030941-265.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |death_place = Indianapolis, Indiana |other_names = |known_for = Founding [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] with [[Harlan Anderson]] |occupation = Engineer |nationality = American }} '''Kenneth Harry Olsen''' (February 20, 1926<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/technology/business-computing/08olsen.html?_r=1&src=twrhp | work=The New York Times | first=Glenn | last=Rifkin | title=Ken Olsen, Founder of DEC, Dies at 84 | date=February 7, 2011}}</ref> — February 6, 2011<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=12864374 Computer Pioneer Ken Olsen Dies at Age 84 - ABC News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>) was an [[Americans|American]] [[engineer]] and [[entrepreneur]]. He started [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) in 1957 with [[Harlan Anderson]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/114.html |title=''National Inventor's Hall of Fame profile'' |access-date=2011-08-19 |archive-date=2010-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205232254/http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/114.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Background== Olsen was born in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]]. He grew up in nearby [[Stratford, Connecticut]]. His father's parents came from [[Norway]] and his mother's parents came from [[Sweden]]. Olsen began his [[career]] working summers in a [[machine shop]]. Olsen fixed [[radio]]s in his [[wikt:basement|basement]] as a child. He served in the [[United States