18 Aug
2010
18 Aug
'10
5:31 p.m.
On 18 Aug 2010 at 9:25, Al Kossow wrote:
The earliest use of the term as we use it today was an
ad in
Datamation announcing the (Varian) Data 520i in April, 1968.
That would, etymologically speaking, put the term more in the
American "miniskirt" (1966) camp that came over with the Mod
subculture and the Beatles, than the BMC/Morris "Mini (1959) one.
I'd suspected the auto usage was more exclusively British.
Could we say that the minicomputer owes its origins to Carnaby
Street?
--Chuck