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Mid-1960s–late-1980s class of smaller computers
A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of general-purpose computer mostly developed from the mid-1960s, built significantly smaller and sold at
Minicomputer
Papy Minicomputer, named after Frédérique Papy-Lenger – the most influential figure to the project – and her husband Georges Papy. A Minicomputer is a
Comprehensive School Mathematics Program
Comprehensive_School_Mathematics_Program
Minicomputer built by Honeywell
The Honeywell 316 was a popular 16-bit minicomputer built by Honeywell starting in 1969. It is part of the Series 16, which includes the Models 116 (1965
Honeywell_316
Data storage device
computers of the 1950s and 1960s, and later as a storage medium for minicomputers and CNC machine tools. During the Second World War, high-speed punched
Punched_tape
Minicomputer product line
family of 12-bit minicomputers that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Launched in 1965, it was the first minicomputer to sell for under
PDP-8
Defunct computer museum in Seattle, Washington
June 2024. The museum exhibited vintage computers spanning mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers, most configured for interactive use either through
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
Living_Computers:_Museum_+_Labs
Class of computer systems that fall in between mainframes and minicomputers
in science and research as well as for business - and referred to as minicomputers.[disputed – discuss] IBM favored the term "midrange computer" for their
Midrange_computer
1972–1998 American producer of minicomputers
Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. With the advent of PCs and the decline of the minicomputer industry, Prime was forced out
Prime_Computer
Text-based strategy game
paper. The Minneapolis school district had recently purchased an HP 2100 minicomputer, and the schools the trio were teaching in, like the other schools in
The Oregon Trail (1971 video game)
The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game)
Early minicomputer first released in 1962
The Arma Micro Computer was an early minicomputer first released in 1962. Manufactured by the Arma Engineering Company, it had a bit-serial architecture
Arma_Micro_Computer
ranks some more obscure computer sizes. There are different sizes like minicomputers, microcomputers, mainframe computers and super computers. These are
List of computer size categories
List_of_computer_size_categories
software to link minicomputers together, and integrated multiple-access disk drives, thereby creating a multi-processor minicomputer with a level of protection
Geac_Computer_Corporation
Name used for several lines of minicomputers
Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990 for several lines of minicomputers. The name "PDP" intentionally avoids the use of the term "computer"
Programmed_Data_Processor
American computer and word processing company (1951–1999)
produced electronic typesetters, desktop calculators, word processors and minicomputers over four decades. Operating alongside Digital Equipment Corporation
Wang_Laboratories
Series of 16-bit minicomputers
The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers originally sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products
PDP-11
First arithmetic logic unit (ALU) on a single chip
arithmetic/logic core in the CPUs of many historically significant minicomputers and other devices. The 74181 represents an evolutionary step between
74181
Digital computer from Cuba
Developer University of La Habana Manufacturer ICID Product family CID Type Minicomputer Generation Third-generation computer Released 1970; 56 years ago (1970)
CID-201
PC12 by Artronix was a minicomputer built with 7400-series TTL technology and ferrite core memory. Computers were manufactured at the Artronix facility
PC12_minicomputer
Process of starting a computer
(S/370-XA) and later, and adding a new type of IPL for z/Architecture. Minicomputers, starting with the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-5 and PDP-8
Booting
Minicomputer manufacturer, 1968–1999
Data General Corporation was an early minicomputer firm formed in 1968. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation
Data_General
1981 nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder
between two computer design groups within Data General Corporation, a minicomputer vendor in the 1970s. Most of the senior designers are assigned the "sexy"
The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
16-bit microprocessor
Introduced in June 1976, it implemented Texas Instruments's TI-990 minicomputer architecture in a single-chip format, and was initially used for low-end
TMS9900
Early video games on mainframe computers
composed of mainframe computers and the relatively smaller and cheaper minicomputer variant. During the mid to late 1960s, many early video games were programmed
Early_mainframe_games
Minicomputer sold from 1971 to 1985
The Mitra 15 is a minicomputer made by the French company CII under Plan Calcul, along with the Iris 50 and Iris 80 mainframe computers. It was marketed
Mitra_15
Group of electrical connectors specifically aligned
printed circuit board, but wire-wrapped backplanes have also been used in minicomputers and high-reliability applications. A backplane is generally differentiated
Backplane
Computer architecture bit width
16-bit word length thus became more common in the 1960s, especially on minicomputer systems. Early 16-bit computers (c. 1965–70) include the IBM 1130, the
16-bit_computing
American computer manufacturer (1957–1998)
product lines over its history. It is best known for the work in the minicomputer market starting in the early 1960s. The company produced a series of
Digital_Equipment_Corporation
American information technology company
Richardson. By August 1974, Centurion had designed and manufactured its first minicomputer, combined it with peripherals and software, and delivered it as the initial
Centurion Computer Corporation
Centurion_Computer_Corporation
Operating system for IBM minicomputers
Program (SSP) is the operating system of the IBM System/34 and System/36 minicomputers. SSP was released in 1977. SSP originally contained 60 or so commands
System_Support_Program
American multinational company
data. The group sought to develop a GPIB interface for the PDP-11/04 minicomputer. In 1976, they founded a company in Truchard's garage. They initially
National_Instruments
connected by a custom-designed local area network (LAN) to an Olivetti P6060 minicomputer. The terminals contained an Intel 8748 single-chip microcontroller, which
Electronic voting in the European Parliament
Electronic_voting_in_the_European_Parliament
Family of programming languages
simultaneously on remote terminals. This general model became popular on minicomputer systems like the PDP-11 and Data General Nova in the late 1960s and early
BASIC
Small computer with a CPU made out of a microprocessor
and Intel 8088. The predecessors to these computers, mainframes and minicomputers, were comparatively much larger and more expensive. Many microcomputers
Microcomputer
1979 minicomputer operating system
was originally developed for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11 minicomputers and was later ported to other platforms. Unix versions from Bell Labs
Version_7_Unix
Computer programming language
subroutines among other additions. COMAL was originally written for minicomputers, but was small enough to run on early microcomputers as well. It is
COMAL
Business Basic variety
the business BASIC market, with similar products appearing on other minicomputer systems, and later, microcomputers like the Apple III. It remained a
Basic/Four
be called "personal" were early minicomputers such as the LINC and PDP-8, and later on VAX and larger minicomputers from Digital Equipment Corporation
History of computing hardware (1960s–present)
History_of_computing_hardware_(1960s–present)
East German clone of the MicroVAX II computer
The K 1820, full name RVS K 1820 (Rechnersystem mit virtuellem Speicher, "computer system with virtual memory"), cipher in the SM EVM of the former COMECON
Robotron_K_1820
Computer
needed] The Mark-8 was introduced in Radio-Electronics as "Your Personal Minicomputer" as the word 'microcomputer' was still far from being commonly used for
Mark-8
12-bit computer from Digital
earlier 12-bit computer, named LINC has been described as the first minicomputer and also "the first modern personal computer." It had 2,048 12-bit words
PDP-5
Data storage subsystem with redundant hard disk drives
DataVault cabinet contains 42 disk drives (or 84 for double capacity) plus a minicomputer as the controller The controller accepts I/O commands over an Ethernet
DataVault
Series of educational computer games
project. Bill Heinemann used HP Time-Shared BASIC running on an HP 2100 minicomputer to write the original computer program. The original core gameplay concepts
The_Oregon_Trail_(series)
East German clone of the VAX-11/780 computer
mit virtuellem Speicher, "computer system with virtual memory") is a minicomputer from the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Its development began in August
Robotron_K_1840
Minicomputer introduced in 1964
The PDP-7 is an 18-bit minicomputer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation as part of the PDP series. Introduced in 1964, shipped since 1965, it was
PDP-7
Operating system
Computer for its minicomputer systems. It rapidly gained popularity and by the mid-1980s was a serious contender as a mainline minicomputer operating system
PRIMOS
Programmable machine that processes data
computer Reduced instruction set computer Supercomputer Mainframe computer Minicomputer (term no longer used), Midrange computer Server Rackmount server Blade
Computer
Japanese information technology company
Electronic Industrial (合名会社ウノケ電子工業, Gōmei gaisha Unoke Denshi Kōgyō) was a minicomputer manufacturer founded in Unoke, Ishikawa on November 1, 1960. Uchida Yoko [ja]
PFU_Limited
Early word processing system
utilize floppy disks as a storage medium. The AES-90 contained an entire minicomputer, the AES-80, built out of off-the-shelf TTL logic components. Despite
AES-90
Order of bytes in a computer word
big-endian addressing for byte-oriented instructions. The IBM Series/1 minicomputer uses big-endian byte order. The Motorola 6800 / 6801, the 6809 and the
Endianness
MicroPDP-11/73) was the third generation of the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation to use LSI processors. Introduced
PDP-11/73
1970s era IBM minicomputer
The IBM Series/1 is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11
IBM_Series/1
Video game for a personal computer
Wintel, which has dominated the computer industry since. Mainframe and minicomputer games are a precursor to personal computer games. Home computer games
PC_game
Family of Unix-like operating systems
1990, Torvalds enrolled in a Unix course. The course used a MicroVAX minicomputer running Ultrix, and one of the required texts was Operating Systems:
Linux
East German manufacturer of computers and consumer electronics
000 people in 1989. Its products included personal computers, SM EVM minicomputers, the ESER mainframe computers, various computer peripherals as well
VEB_Robotron
Experimental minicomputer by IBM
processor for a telephone switch, it was later used as the basis for a minicomputer and a number of products for their mainframe line. The initial design
IBM_801
Historical computer form factor
A superminicomputer, colloquially supermini, is a high-end minicomputer. The term is used to distinguish the emerging 32-bit architecture midrange computers
Superminicomputer
Former American computer company
computer known as the MegaFrame, "the first system upgradable from super-minicomputer to mainframe". The division was headed by Ben Wegbreit and also responsible
Convergent_Technologies
UNIX workstation series
1987 and was conceived as a desktop replacement for the VAX series of minicomputers. Sony's NEWS project leader, Toshitada Doi, originally wanted to develop
Sony_NEWS
Minicomputer made in 1960s
series is a series of minicomputers that was built by Control Data Corporation. The CDC 160 and CDC 160-A are 12-bit minicomputers built from 1960 to 1965;
CDC_160_series
Topics referred to by the same term
Brazilian car produced 1992–1994 Superminicomputer, a 1970s term for a minicomputer Subcompact car This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
Supermini_(disambiguation)
Minicomputer company
Oceanport, New Jersey. The company produced a line of 16- and 32-bit minicomputers that were loosely based on the IBM 360 instruction set architecture
Interdata
High-end single-user computer
paper-tape and punch-card I/O. Early workstations were generally dedicated minicomputers, a multiuser system repurposed for a single user. For example, the PDP-8
Workstation
Large and powerful computer
more processing power than some other classes of computers, such as minicomputers, workstations, and personal computers. Most large-scale computer-system
Mainframe_computer
Composition of text by means of arranging physical types or digital equivalents
Agfa) and others rapidly followed suit with machines of their own. Early minicomputer-based typesetting software introduced in the 1970s and early 1980s, such
Typesetting
Type of minicomputer
The AN/UYK-44 was the standard 16-bit minicomputer of the United States Navy developed in the early 1980s by Sperry Corporation and was completed in early
AN/UYK-44
at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, MS-DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days
List_of_Unicode_characters
Programming language close to hardware
Front panel of a PDP-8/e minicomputer. The row of switches at the bottom can be used to toggle in machine code.
Low-level programming language
Low-level_programming_language
Computer architecture bit width
electronic computing, in experimental systems and then in large mainframe and minicomputer systems. The first hybrid 16/32-bit microprocessor, the Motorola 68000
32-bit_computing
Former American computer hardware company
systems and disk controllers, while MSC was dedicated to mainframe and minicomputer disk controllers from the outset. In 1976, Microcomputer Systems moved
Xebec_Corporation
Printing and display typeface
Orbit-B, and Countdown. Later, Typodermic released another derivative, Minicomputer, and Pixel Sagas would release another derivative with Twobit. Robert
Westminster_(typeface)
British company
The control electronics for a Hilger and Watts Y290 four-circle X-ray diffractometer including a PDP-8 minicomputer.
Hilger_&_Watts
18-bit computer from Digital, 1966
The PDP-9, the fourth of the five 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation, was introduced in 1966. A total of 445 PDP-9 systems
PDP-9
1970s/1980s US minicomputer vendor
Modcomp, Inc., originally Modular Computer Systems, was a small minicomputer vendor that specialized in real-time applications. They were founded in 1970
Modcomp
Unauthorized standard test image
each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers
Lenna
Computer built using discrete transistors
included the PDP-1, PDP-6, PDP-7 and early PDP-8s, the last starting the minicomputer revolution. Later models of the PDP-8 beginning with PDP-8I in 1968 used
Transistor_computer
Topics referred to by the same term
Tahoe (Victoria Island), lake on Victoria Island, Canada The Power 6/32 minicomputer by Computer Consoles Inc. TCP Tahoe, a variant of Transmission Control
Tahoe_(disambiguation)
Unix operating system
The VAX-11/780, a typical minicomputer used for early BSD timesharing systems
Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley_Software_Distribution
one without convening a meeting of the board of directors. The entire minicomputer industry sprang up to supply the demand for 'small' computers like the
Commodity_computing
produced at I.T.C.I Brașov, in 1986. Independent minicomputer series [ro] was a series of Romanian minicomputers, manufactured from 1983 to 1989. They were
History of computing in Romania
History_of_computing_in_Romania
American computer engineer (1934–2024)
the minicomputer". Bell was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1977 for contributions to the architecture of minicomputers.[citation
Gordon_Bell
Topics referred to by the same term
PC12 may refer to: PC12 cell line, in biotechnology PC12 minicomputer Pilatus PC-12, a civilian aircraft BAP Río Chira (PC 12), a vessel of the Peruvian
PC12
1970s-80s computer terminal series
smart terminals became the main way to interact with mainframes and minicomputers in the 1980s. There were four series of machines, starting with the
DECwriter
American equipment and electronics company (1910–1986)
Varian Data Machines so as to enter the minicomputer market. Varian would be renamed as the Sperry UNIVAC Minicomputer Operation, operating as part of the
Sperry_Corporation
Defunct Norwegian computer manufacturer
Norsk Data was a minicomputer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1998, it had its most active period from the early 1970s to the
Norsk_Data
Computer series from British company ICL
The ICL Series 39 was a range of mainframe and minicomputer computer systems released by the UK manufacturer ICL in 1985. The original Series 39 introduced
ICL_Series_39
Fourth-generation programming language
PowerHouse is a byte-compiled fourth-generation programming language (or 4GL) originally produced by Quasar Corporation (later renamed Cognos Incorporated)
PowerHouse (programming language)
PowerHouse_(programming_language)
1970 model of the DEC PDP-8 line of minicomputers
The PDP-8/e was a model of the PDP-8 line of minicomputers, designed by the Digital Equipment Corporation to be a general-purpose computer that inexpensively
PDP-8/e
Defunct American computer company
Billings Computer was active between 1977 and 1985 and released several minicomputers and microcomputer systems. Roger Billings of Provo, Utah, founded Billings
Billings_Computer
General Corporation for the Nova, Eclipse, and Eclipse/MV families of minicomputers in the 1970s and early 1980s. Released in late 1977, the language was
DG/L
American physicist and computer engineer (1927–2016)
Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC computer, which was the first minicomputer and shares with a number of other computers (such as the PDP-1) the claim
Wesley_A._Clark
George Harrar. It chronicles the experiences of Olson racing to design minicomputers at the company of his own founding, Digital Equipment Corporation. At
The_Ultimate_Entrepreneur
1976 video game
commands onto punched tape, which were then fed into a Honeywell 316 minicomputer attached to a Calcomp drum plotter at BBN to print paper maps. These
Colossal_Cave_Adventure
Microcomputer designed in 1974
the box. The front panel, which was inspired by the Data General Nova minicomputer, included a large number of toggle switches to feed binary data directly
Altair_8800
Aspect of the instruction set architecture of CPUs
performance penalty due to the extra memory access involved. Some early minicomputers (e.g. DEC PDP-8, Data General Nova) had only a few registers and only
Addressing_mode
Portable computer released by IBM in 1975
viability of creating a single-user computer. SCAMP emulated an IBM 1130 minicomputer in order to run APL\1130. In 1973, APL was generally available only on
IBM_5100
Former vendor of graphic design systems
California, was, between 1965 and 1988, a vendor of digitizers and minicomputer-based graphics systems targeted at the cartographic and electronic, mechanical
Calma
American electronics company
logic in the desk pedestal. The electronics included a simple 16-bit minicomputer, 8-16 kilobytes of magnetic-core memory, and a display processor for
IMLAC
1971 minicomputer from Wang Laboratories
The Wang 3300 was a minicomputer released by Wang Laboratories in 1971. Model with machine time sharing created between Wang 4000 and Wang 2200. Wang's
Wang_3300
Romania, producing a range of computer families spanning mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, home computers, and IBM PC-compatible systems—a breadth
ICE_Felix
General-purpose programming language
versions of C were implemented for a wide variety of mainframe computers, minicomputers, and microcomputers, including the IBM PC, as its popularity increased
C_(programming_language)
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Boy/Male
Hindi
God of the sun.
Male
Egyptian
, the son of Prince Sheshank.
Boy/Male
Australian, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish
Savior
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Fairytale; Pleasant Smell; Name of Flower
Boy/Male
Irish
Rock.
Girl/Female
American, Arabic, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Jamaican, Nigerian, Swedish, Swiss, Tamil
Who is Like God; Who Resembles God; Like the Lord
Female
Greek
(Φωτινή) Greek name derived from the word phos, PHOTINE means "light."
Girl/Female
American, Australian, French, Gaelic, Scottish
Holly Garden; The Gray Castle
Boy/Male
Sikh
The wielder of the sword
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
One Absorbed in Divine Light and Knowledge
MINICOMPUTER
MINICOMPUTER
MINICOMPUTER
MINICOMPUTER
MINICOMPUTER