This is the story of the PDP-11, the most influential and successful minicomputer ever. In their moment, minicomputers were used in a variety of applications. They served as communications ...

[Usagi Electric] has a Centurion, which is a 1980s-vintage minicomputer based on a bitslice processor. He wanted to use it to write assembly language programs targeting the same system (or an ...

[David Lovett] aka Usagi Electric has spent the last several months dissecting a Centurion minicomputer from 1980. His latest update reveals that the restoration has hit several snags, and ...

The PDP-1 first saw the light of day in 1960. Designed by DEC founder Ken Olsen and Harlan Andersen, it was the world's first minicomputer — which simply meant that it was smaller than the ...

The launch of the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) minicomputer in 1959 is said to have marked a radical shift in computer design philosophy. Ostensibly the first ...

It would become known as the minicomputer. Mr. Bell designed a family of computers known as VAX — short for Virtual Address eXtension — which debuted in 1977 and became available in ...

The company is (or rather, was) Digital Equipment Corp. of Maynard, Mass., and the extremely successful minicomputer line was the VAX. I found myself reminiscing about the VAX because the word ...

(Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA) The first minicomputer company. Commonly known as DEC or Digital, it was founded in 1957 by Kenneth Olsen, who headed the company until he retired in 1992.

concerned the Altair 8800, a device which the publication called a “minicomputer.” It would soon come to be known as a microcomputer–the first successful one. Popular Electronics described ...

These were the first versions to run on the DEC PDP-11. That's the second machine that Unix ran on – a 16-bit DEC ...

By Glenn Rifkin C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer designs for Digital Equipment Corporation fueled the emergence of the minicomputer industry in the 1960s, died on Friday at ...