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... minicomputers , sold for only $ 18,000 when it was introduced in 1965 , and was the size of a two - drawer file cabinet . Other manufacturers fol- lowed Digital's lead , and by the early 1970s these smaller , less expensive computers ...
... minicomputers , sold for only $ 18,000 when it was introduced in 1965 , and was the size of a two - drawer file cabinet . Other manufacturers fol- lowed Digital's lead , and by the early 1970s these smaller , less expensive computers ...
Page 55
... minicomputers . Perhaps because of the differences among them , each added an ele- ment that the business had lacked . In the process they cre- ated a consumer good - the personal computer - out of what had been , after all , a rather ...
... minicomputers . Perhaps because of the differences among them , each added an ele- ment that the business had lacked . In the process they cre- ated a consumer good - the personal computer - out of what had been , after all , a rather ...
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... minicomputers was reassuring . Digital Equipment Corp. had introduced its minicomputers in the 1960s . It had sold them instead of renting them , and it let its customers ( or third - party sup- pliers known as original - equipment ...
... minicomputers was reassuring . Digital Equipment Corp. had introduced its minicomputers in the 1960s . It had sold them instead of renting them , and it let its customers ( or third - party sup- pliers known as original - equipment ...
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