It was still harder than using a CPU chip, but not as hard as rolling your own CPU from scratch. [Usagi Electric] has a Centurion, which is a 1980s-vintage minicomputer based on a bitslice processor.

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 meant it was smaller than the average room.

The result is a new super-affordable minicomputer for the whole family." The Pi Vessel's Kickstarter campaign is a modest $25,000 to start production and to deliver on its perks.

The cusp of the minicomputer era DEC built the PDP-1 as a single address, single instruction, stored program computer with a magnetic core memory and full parallel processing. This translated to a ...

Object Details maker Digital Equipment Corporation Description In 1957, Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson founded a company called Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) with the goal of manufacturing and ...

The story in question (which the magazine billed as an “exclusive!”) concerned the Altair 8800, a device which the publication called a “minicomputer.” It would soon come to be known as a ...

We’re talking about the 1980s. The company is (or rather, was) Digital Equipment Corp. of Maynard, Mass., and the extremely successful minicomputer line was the VAX.

C. Gordon Bell, father of the minicomputer, dies at 89 He helped usher in modern computing by moving technology beyond massive mainframes toward modern-day desktops and laptops.

Brain Architecture: Every Cell Acts Like Minicomputer Processing Information Published Oct 22, 2018 at 10:06 AM EDT Updated Oct 22, 2018 at 10:50 AM EDT By Hannah Osborne ...

The EDUC-8, a DIY minicomputer design that came out in “Electronics Australia” magazine, was almost the world’s first in August 1974. And it would have been tied for the world’s first if ...

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 his home in ...

The minicomputer returns to a Web site near you Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has launched a site to pay homage to a much-loved old friend, DEC's PDP, in all its guises ...