On 02/07/2011 09:05 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: You would have enjoyed he meeting. I spent 10 years in DEC and a fair portion in the Mill and not far from KOs office. I had many meeting with him all non formal. the usual thing was being in the Mill on a Saturday workin on a proect and I'd get the feeing I was not alone, sure enough Ken would pop in the office and say hi and as what the project was or in the lab. He was always interested in what people were doing, ever the engineer. Allison

I worked for DEC and met Ken on a few occasions. The one I remember was having joined DEC as a Sales Engineer in the early 1970's. The highlight of our six-week training program was "Lunch with Ken Olsen". We duly filed into the inevitable windowless conference room and stocked up our plates from the buffet. We sat down and nibbled on what we had. After about ten minutes somebody said "where's Ken Olsen?" A voice in the middle of the group said "I'm just finishing my lunch, I'll come and talk to you all shortly". He knew that being new hires we would probably not recognize him. You could see he thought it was really funny. Rod Smallwood ? ? -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Curt @ Atari Museum Sent: 08 February 2011 05:48 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Ken Olsen Wow... that sucks, I mean he was in his 80's, but still, its very sad to see Ken Olson pass on, we all owe a lot to DEC and him... Evan, hope maybe you can scrounge up a couple of big DEC heads and have them do some nice displays this year at VCF East as a nice farewall to Ken Olson... Curt Evan Koblentz wrote: