For example, the minicomputer industry began, grew up, got big, profitable, smug, senile and died in 20 years from 1975 to 1995.
en.wikipedia.org They wanted a minicomputer that could connect to a teletype and a paper tape reader.
www.wired.com 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 It was used as a standard minicomputer for general-purpose computing, such as timesharing, scientific, educational, or business computing.
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