Back then a minicomputer was the size of a desk, whereas a microcomputer could fit on top of a desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Verizon FIOS] Reference
Rather, the machine was sold as a "minicomputer" and was aimed exclusively at electronics hobbyists. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The minicomputer industry around Boston took root. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Tips: Great Restructuring Winners] Reference
"Basically she was wearing a minicomputer," said Mr. Wujek. From Wordnik.com. [Perry Lights Up Room] Reference
Just like the PC was more satisfying than the minicomputer. From Wordnik.com. [Opening Up Windows] Reference
"The data will be programmed in the minicomputer in his brain.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]
For Version G. 01: Hewlett Packard series 3000 minicomputer, with. From Wordnik.com. [90. Trilingual training package for video production] Reference
Or New England, which snubbed PCs to stick with the minicomputer. From Wordnik.com. [Krisztina Holly: Hollywood's Dinosaur Moment] Reference
Last year, Mr. Millar said, his minicomputer fell off in a pile-up. From Wordnik.com. [When the Middle of the Pack Is Good] Reference
Before the personal-computer revolution came the minicomputer revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Times In Maynard] Reference
One day the minicomputer manufacturers woke up and people were buying PCs. From Wordnik.com. [Technology in the Next Century] Reference
And IBM could have invented the minicomputer instead of DEC and Data General. From Wordnik.com. [Scripting News for 1/3/2008 « Scripting News Annex] Reference
The 1990-91 recession killed the minicomputer industry and nearly wrecked IBM. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Tips: Great Restructuring Winners] Reference
IBM was forced to get into the minicomputer business, which led to the personal computer. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
It became relatively inexpensive to build a workstation with the power of a minicomputer. From Wordnik.com. [Managing New Product and Process Development] Reference
Into the world of the minicomputer had come a new kind of machine — the 32-bit supermini. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Upside Down] Reference
November 27th, 2005 at 2: 13 am win now says: adjusting Galahad transition minicomputer sari. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » EU wants answers on secret prisons.] Reference
The minicomputer revolution originated there and the microcomputer revolution from CA and WA. From Wordnik.com. [Massachusetts Health "Plan", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
In the workstation and minicomputer area, Sun's Network File System is more likely to be used. From Wordnik.com. [The Hiss Case: Another Exchange!] Reference
Portugal is like the minicomputer of countries...once all-powerful, but now more like a footnote. From Wordnik.com. [Hate mail] Reference
On Tuesday, the company also cut prices of a netbook, which is a minicomputer, in Japan by more than 20%. From Wordnik.com. [PC Makers Scramble as Demand Shrivels] Reference
The device, to be attached by supermarkets to their grocery carts, is like a minicomputer with a scanner. From Wordnik.com. [12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement] Reference
By 1978, the increasingly imprecise term "minicomputer company" could be applied to about fifty corporations. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Upside Down] Reference
Then he repositioned his database for the emerging minicomputer market, betting that Big Blue would drag its heels. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend] Reference
He has seen it shift from mainframe to minicomputer to personal computer in his long tenure on the technology mound. From Wordnik.com. [Wireless Is the New Platform] Reference
Hermann Hauser, the Cambridge graduate who started ARM, also founded Acorn Computer, an influential minicomputer firm. From Wordnik.com. [Innovation: Europe's Silicon Envy] Reference
Dominated by large, vertically integrated, and secretive minicomputer producers such as DEC, Wang, Prime, and Data General. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of My Dreams: Why Silicon Valley Left Boston’s Route 128 In The Dust] Reference
Mary Payne worked at Digital Equipment Corporation back in the days when Maynard was the minicomputer capital of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Ada Lovelace Day] Reference
In the computer world we get not new mediums but new platforms: the minicomputer, the microprocessor, the web-based application. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of the Marginal] Reference
Looking at the photographs of the minicomputer that she was supposed to write sparkling copy about, she closed her eyes tightly. From Wordnik.com. [Give Us Forever]
July 20, 2006, 9: 00 am consolidate credit card debt says: consolidate credit carddebt minicomputer suspect replicated stockroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » STUART BUCK ON TOP 20 THINKERS:] Reference
It was also during this period that many GIS applications moved from expensive minicomputer workstations to personal computer hardware. From Wordnik.com. [Geographic Information Systems (GIS)] Reference
At Microsoft, for example, minicomputer pioneer Gordon Bell's program, MyLifeBits , continues to develop ways to sort and store memories. From Wordnik.com. [Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project] Reference
But new innovations often cannibalize old products, just as digital photography did to film and the personal computer to the minicomputer. From Wordnik.com. [Krisztina Holly: The Innovation Ecosystem] Reference
Originally, east coast firms such as Apollo and Stratus owned the minicomputer market. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Company] Reference
Even before that, the same goes for the minicomputer, the PC, the workstation, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [orgtheory.net] Reference
It is hard to imagine, especially for those of us who grew up in the minicomputer/PC era. From Wordnik.com. [Hottest News Articles] Reference
I was told that in fact I was not eligible for a minicomputer because I was an "existing customer.". From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
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