On 01/24/2014 10:00 AM, Rick Bensene wrote:
What about the Bendix G15? Introduced in 1953.
Definitely fits the
criteria outlined in the article. Not that I agree with the
article..like many others here feel, the term `first` in a historical
context is too fraught with issues of definition.
Or the Univac 402? It's an impossible task, I think. You can set
criteria, but that's all ex post facto. Were there any minicomputers
before the miniskirt?
"Midicomputer" seems to be a marketing term that never caught on--but
neither did the midiskirt. This probably has more to do with human
psychology more than technology.
"Microcomputer" suffers from that problem also. In particular, note the
AES microcomputer (billed as such)--a card cage of boards. Here, I
think it was a marketing term implying that the thing was
microprogrammable, not small.
--Chuck