pace with the market's growing demands. Automation technology could offer faster production setup times, greater adaptability, and reduced reliance on human manual labor. Retro Electro fun fact: Dick Morley would have attended MIT at the same time as Kenneth Olsen, the founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which later became one of his most significant competitors. There is no evidence that they knew each other, but Olson was a research assistant, so he could have been an instructor in a few of Morley’s classes.
Dick Morley Richard Morley (Dick Morley) was born in 1932 on a farm in Massachusetts. He attended MIT in the early 1950s but dropped out before graduating. He claims that he dropped out because he spent too much time partying and that he didn’t study enough. After college, he worked as a machinist and worked with RADAR systems, but the 9-to-5 life was not for him, as he told it, he quit his job because he
wanted to be able to go skiing on the weekdays, when it was less crowded. I’m sure there is more to it, but his career before Bedford Associates isn’t known to the writer. Bedford Associates Growing up on a farm, he was instilled with an entrepreneurial spirit. In 1964 he and some colleagues started a company named ‘Bedford Associates Inc.’ which worked primarily in
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