[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 ...

Widely considered to be the world’s first minicomputer, the PDP-8 aimed to bring all the power and features of a PDP to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.

[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 ...

The next time you find yourself in Bozeman, Montana, you owe it to yourself to make a pitstop at the American Computer & ...

How to lure an architect onto the rocks.

Clay led the team that built the HP 2116A minicomputer, HP's first computer. In staffing his division, Clay recruited from the first graduating class of the Stanford University computer science ...

We should have. When Babaoğlu was still a grad student at UC Berkeley, his virtual memory system became a core part of the ...

Boston has recently gained recognition for something new: its rise as a global tech powerhouse. Once celebrated primarily for ...

The names Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk embody the success and uniqueness of firms that have achieved celebrity ...