Wasn't, really. DEC founder Ken Olsen had been MIT's liason to IBM during the SAGE project (a massive air defense warning system that had been prototyped by MIT

Wasn't, really. DEC founder Ken Olsen had been MIT's liason to IBM during the SAGE project (a massive air defense warning system that had been prototyped by MIT's Whirlwind project), but I don't think he ever worked for them directly.