Minicomputers were mid-range, general-purpose computers in the age of mainframes, the latter taking up large rooms and ...

I never used one, but watched with awe the one we had at our school being used in the computer lab, 1980 i think it was ? There was a guru of a developer at the time who had programmed Pong off a set ...

(Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA) The first minicomputer company. Commonly known as DEC or Digital, it was founded in 1957 by Kenneth Olsen, who headed the company until he retired in 1992.

In the days before computers usually used off-the-shelf CPU chips, people who needed a CPU often used something called “bitslice.” The idea was to have a building block chip that needed some ...

Gather ‘round and listen to a tale from olden times, when a “mini” computer was as big as a refrigerator. When the world’s second-biggest computer company was headquartered in a former woollen mill in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-1960s, the Computer ...

In their day, the Digital Equipment Company PDP series of mini-computers ruled the world ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose, as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so ...

He helped usher in modern computing by moving technology beyond massive mainframes toward modern-day desktops and laptops. C. Gordon Bell, an engineer who helped usher in the era of modern computing ...

Here is Ken Olsen, President of DEC, expounding on DEC's attitude towards UNIX: "One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our ...

In their day, the Digital Equipment Corp. PDP series of minicomputers ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose: as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so loves the PDP ...