17 Aug
2010
17 Aug
'10
10:39 p.m.
On 17 Aug 2010 at 15:14, dwight elvey wrote:
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.
Is it safe to say that there were no minicomputers called as such
before 1960, simply owing the etymology? The BMC Mini auto dates
from 1960 or so and the miniskirt, from 1966.
With the PDP-1, I wonder if the the "mini" applied more to cost than
physical size.
--Chuck