Microprocessor-based computers were originally very limited in their computational ability and speed, and were in no way an attempt to downsize the minicomputer.
en.wikipedia.org The central processing unit consists of a minicomputer, a computer console and page printer, a magnetic tape transport and a magnetic disk memory unit.
en.wikipedia.org They wanted a minicomputer that could connect to a teletype and a paper tape reader.
www.wired.com It was used as a standard minicomputer for general-purpose computing, such as timesharing, scientific, educational, or business computing.
en.wikipedia.org For example, the minicomputer industry began, grew up, got big, profitable, smug, senile and died in 20 years from 1975 to 1995.
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