Throughout the 1960s, computers went through a series of major advances in technology, design, speed, price, storage, and ...

It would become known as the minicomputer. Mr. Bell designed a family of computers known as VAX — short for Virtual Address ...

[Usagi Electric] has a Centurion, which is a 1980s-vintage minicomputer based on a bitslice processor. He wanted to use it to write assembly language programs targeting the same system (or an ...

Abstract: After a general description of the major hardware elements of a minicomputer, the system is discussed from the viewpoint of a machine-language programmer. It is shown that the machine ...

It allows him to make engineering drawings with a light pen. A typical minicomputer costs about $20,000. 1965: An IC that cost $1000 in 1959 now costs less than $10. Gordon Moore predicts that the ...

(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.

Jonathan A. Titus designs the Mark-8, "Your Personal Minicomputer," according to the July, 1974 cover of Radio-Electronics. Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover ...

[Usagi Electric] has his Centurion minicomputer (and a few others) running like a top. One feature that’s missing, though, is the ability to produce a hard copy. Now, a serious machine like ...

In 1965, the first commercially successful minicomputer had an inflation-adjusted price tag of $135,470. It was able to undertake basic computations, such as addition and multiplication. Its capacity ...

The CSMP project employs four non-verbal languages for the purpose of posing problems and representing mathematical concepts: the Papy Minicomputer (mental computation), Arrows (relations), Strings ...

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