[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 ...

It allows him to make engineering drawings with a light pen. A typical minicomputer costs about $20,000. 1965: An IC that cost $1000 in 1959 now costs less than $10. Gordon Moore predicts that the ...

(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.

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 ...