Found at “Work at the Mill - by Bradford Morgan White” on 2025-02-11 12:27:01 +01:00.

Olsen wanted to start a company that sold small, transistorized, interactive computers. The TX-0 showed that interactive computing was more appealing to people than the prior batch paradigm. While people would queue for hours for time on the TX-0, they largely ignored the larger and more powerful machines that ran batch.