Title:
Oral History of Harlan Anderson

Date:
2006-05-15

Pages:
32 p.

Interviewer:
Hendrie, Gardner; interviewer,
Anderson, Harlan; interviewee

Abstract:
In this interview, Harlan Anderson, one of the co-founders of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) reflects on his life and career. He discusses his early experiences working at MIT’s Lincoln Lab with Ken Olsen on the Memory Test Computer and the SAGE system. He reviews the founding of DEC and the environment that led to the development of the PDP-1 at the end of 1959, and reflects on DEC’s corporate culture, and life after DEC.

Keywords:
Anderson, Harlan
Ordinance Vacuum Tube (ORDVAC)
Lincoln Laboratory
Olsen, Ken
Memory Test Computer
Clark, Wes
SAGE System
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
System modules
Olsen, Stan
Gurley, Ben
Best, Dick
Memory Testers
PDP-1
Bolt, Beranek and Newman
DECUS
Bell, Gordon
Kotok, Alan
Forrester, Jay

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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