Small school given Digital's past

Legendary computer engineer Ken Olsen graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. But when he decided to give his personal archives to a college, the founder of Digital Equipment Corp. didn't choose his alma mater; he donated his trove of papers and electronic artifacts to Gordon College, a small Christian campus north of Boston. (Full article: 681 words)

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