Questions tagged [minicomputers]

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Raytheon 704 mini uses?

I came across this little machine in a roundabout fashion - 4kW of RAM and 1usec cycle for "under $10,000"! (not including ASR33) It seems this is largely lost to history. Does anyone know what this machine was made for (it seems all too similar to…
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Plessey computer at Stanford?

While updating the wiki article on the 4004, I came across an interesting claim by Ted Hoff, who stated the idea of using a general-purpose CPU in a calculator came to him due to a minicomputer that had been donated to Stanford by the UK company…
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