17 Aug
2010
17 Aug
'10
10:22 p.m.
On 8/17/10, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi
IBM had a series of small computers they called minis that used
water cooling. These where about the size of three standard desk,
end-to-end.
Hmm... of all the judges of "what is a minicomputer", IBM does not
rise to the top of my list. My first impulse is to think that someone
in marketing decided to go after lost sales by saying "see... we have
minicomputers, too". OTOH, I have no knowledge of the machines you
are describing, so perhaps, cooling systems aside, by other criteria,
they _might_ have passed as minicomputers. While liquid cooling was
characteristic of some flavors of mainframes, there were still plenty
of air-cooled mainframes, so I wouldn't make that on its own a
dividing line.
-ethan