Digital Equipment Corporation co-founder, Harlan E. Anderson, published his memoir, Learn, Earn & Return: My Life as a Computer Pioneer in November of 2009. I served as its editor and project manager. The hardcover book is about 300 pages with approximately 100 photos.
Anderson writes of learning about computers and writing programs at the University of Illinois in the late 1940s, when the first stored program computes were still under construction. Anderson shares his experience of meeting Ken Olsen at MIT’s Lincoln Lab where they built the Whirlwind computer’s core memory. And, he writes about he and Ken co-founding Digital Equipment Corporation.
Anderson’s earning days were strongly related to his having been the co-founder, vice president, and board director of Digital from 1957 to 1966. When Digital (DEC) when public in 1966, it was, according to Spencer Ante, a business writer and author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital, "among the most profitable IPOs in the history of Wall Street."
In Learn, Earn & Return, Anderson tells of his close relationship with co-founder Olsen for over 13 years and how their collaboration came apart during this period. The book also includes an appendix, “The Rise and Fall of a Computer Empire” that chronicles Digital’s amazing growth and decline during the period following his resignation from the company. After leaving DEC, he became a highly successful high tech venture capitalist with his own firm, Anderson Investment Company, founded in 1969.
He also writes about his returning days which are still going on through his contributions to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and many other civil and cultural organizations.
The book also includes a Foreword by the late Roy Rowan, a close friend of Anderson's for several decades. Rowan was a former foreign correspondent, writer, and editor for LIFE, TIME, and Fortune magazines, and TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief in the early 1970s. With Anderson as a co-investor, Rowan produced two of the first American regional magazines, On the Shore and On the Sound, that centered around Long Island Sound, and Rowan's longtime home town of Greenwich, Connecticut. A former trustee of my own alma mater, Hartwick College, Rowan visited the campus often and I had the pleasure of meeting him after his seminal management guide, The Intuitive Manager, was published by Little, Brown in 1986.
Learn, Earn & Return can be ordered through Amazon.com.
Anderson writes of learning about computers and writing programs at the University of Illinois in the late 1940s, when the first stored program computes were still under construction. Anderson shares his experience of meeting Ken Olsen at MIT’s Lincoln Lab where they built the Whirlwind computer’s core memory. And, he writes about he and Ken co-founding Digital Equipment Corporation.
Anderson’s earning days were strongly related to his having been the co-founder, vice president, and board director of Digital from 1957 to 1966. When Digital (DEC) when public in 1966, it was, according to Spencer Ante, a business writer and author of Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital, "among the most profitable IPOs in the history of Wall Street."
In Learn, Earn & Return, Anderson tells of his close relationship with co-founder Olsen for over 13 years and how their collaboration came apart during this period. The book also includes an appendix, “The Rise and Fall of a Computer Empire” that chronicles Digital’s amazing growth and decline during the period following his resignation from the company. After leaving DEC, he became a highly successful high tech venture capitalist with his own firm, Anderson Investment Company, founded in 1969.
He also writes about his returning days which are still going on through his contributions to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and many other civil and cultural organizations.
The book also includes a Foreword by the late Roy Rowan, a close friend of Anderson's for several decades. Rowan was a former foreign correspondent, writer, and editor for LIFE, TIME, and Fortune magazines, and TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief in the early 1970s. With Anderson as a co-investor, Rowan produced two of the first American regional magazines, On the Shore and On the Sound, that centered around Long Island Sound, and Rowan's longtime home town of Greenwich, Connecticut. A former trustee of my own alma mater, Hartwick College, Rowan visited the campus often and I had the pleasure of meeting him after his seminal management guide, The Intuitive Manager, was published by Little, Brown in 1986.
Learn, Earn & Return can be ordered through Amazon.com.
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