Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:54:53 -0400
Subject: Re: PDP-1 as minicomputer [was RE: OT - sort of]
From: ethan.dicks at
gmail.com
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
On 8/17/10, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
My own personal yardstick is that a
"minicomputer" is something that
can be run from a single 120V 20A lighting circuit. The PB250
qualifies; the 160A does not--and neither does the PDP-1.
Hmm... I'm not sure the Straight-8 qualifies by that yardstick. 30A
120V circuit, no problem. 20A, I'm not as confident.
Others may use their own yardsticks.
Indeed.
-ethan
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.
Dwight