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DEC's 40 years of innovation

DEC's 40 years of innovation

...company had had considerable success with the single-chip versions of its minicomputers, the architectural limitations had made them obsolete in any format. The Alpha... Read more

12 February, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Spacewar game marks 50th anniversary

Spacewar game marks 50th anniversary

...it may be to believe now, this machine was once considered a minicomputer. This is a picture from the manual of the PDP-1, which... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

Ken Olsen, DEC co-founder, dies at 84

...Twitter reports of his death on Monday. Olsen's company dominated the minicomputer era of the tech industry from the 1960s through to the 1980s... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Tom Krazit
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...bestseller in the mid-1960s — the company sold 50,000 of its 'minicomputer', which was a record-breaker at the time. DEC became the largest... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

...office using a text delivery service called Viewdata. Run on GEC 4000 minicomputers with 374kB of memory and around 800MB spread across 70MB hard disks... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

...time the technology stopped being developed in 1977. Used on mainframes and minicomputers, the drive format was only occasionally found on desktop systems; its unsuitability... Read more

2 May, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

...that TI put into the TI-99/4 home computer. Based on minicomputer architecture, the TMS9900 was beautifully engineered and far better suited to multitasking... Read more

4 December, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

From father of the internet Vint Cerf to visionary sci-fi author William Gibson, the hardware that got IT's hall of fame started... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

The first micros: Intel 4004's forgotten peers

...first with the idea? Almost certainly not: by the late 60s the minicomputer had democratised digital design, with lots of people realising they could create... Read more

15 November, 2011

Happy birthday: Windows is 25

...instead. Microsoft also had a third operating system in development. DEC, the minicomputer giant, had fallen out with Dave Cutler, its star programmer and developer... Read more

22 November, 2010

Facebook's Zuckerberg feels the pain of mobile app development

...the sort of slimming down that has taken place in the mainframe, minicomputer and PC markets. Arrington is clearly no mug and must already have... Read more

23 September, 2010
Visual Basic Programming Language 1.8

Visual Basic Programming Language 1.8

...was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers. The Basic language was also central to the HP Time-Shared Basic... Read more

26 March, 2012
ACS Advanced Console Server

ACS Advanced Console Server

...of servers, private branch exchanges, and network equipment have replaced mainframes and minicomputers in data centers. The advantages of these developments include low cost, reduced... Read more

3 June, 2010
Cloud Computing and the Power to Choose

Cloud Computing and the Power to Choose

...PC liberated the individual user from the limitations of the mainframe and minicomputers and from the rules and regulations of centralized system management. Individual users... Read more

1 June, 2010

Intel crams more memory into mobiles

...memory into handsets, which is a key ingredient for transforming phones into minicomputers. The StrataFlash Wireless Memory System essentially lets phone makers insert four memory... Read more

14 October, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

3 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

6 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

8 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

8 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

9 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

11 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

11 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

13 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

16 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry