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Starting out in 1957 with $70,000, M.I.T. engineer Ken Olsen, 66, founded the Digital Equipment Corp., which grew into the world's second largest computer maker, a $14 billion firm. Now, under the gun for DEC's financial woes -- a huge loss is anticipated for the quarter just ended -- he is stepping down. Olsen foresaw the decline of giant mainframe computers in favor of smaller minicomputers, but he failed to anticipate the revolution in even smaller workstations...
...essence Tommy is a fairy tale, its outer narrative based on spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, its inner narrative an evocation of growing up and facing down the everyday demons of adult life. Unlike the bizarre Ken Russell film, the narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World...
TECHNOLOGY: Ken Baierlein (Manager); Nora Jupiter, Kevin Kelly, George Mendel, Peter K. Niceberg, Michael M. Sheehan, Lamarr Tsufura...
Renewed strength in the convention and commercial travel market in the first half of 1992 led to the increased occupancy, said Ken Wilson, whose company, Hospitality Consulting, prepared the report...
...canceling its order for a 7090 and instead buying an IBM 1401 -- a simple nonresearch "baby computer" (price: $80,000) that is roughly 100 times less powerful and used for different purposes. "It's like the difference between a BB gun and a cannon," says a former top salesman, Ken Crider, who was "shocked" that IBM management allowed Perot to walk away with a commission on the original order...