In their day, the Digital Equipment Company PDP series of mini-computers ruled the world ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose, as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so ...

Kenneth Olsen, who died at 84 on Sunday, was a natural disruptor in the early days of computing. At Digital Equipment Corp., Olsen’s minicomputers undercut the costs of IBM’s mainframe computers and ...

One of the difficulties with addressing IoT applications is understanding application requirements early enough to deliver a solution when it’s most needed. Too early and the need isn’t there yet; too ...

Two Gordons loom large in the history of computing, and both made observations about the interplay of economics and technology and how they foster progress, which have both been enshrined as laws. We ...

In the days before computers usually used off-the-shelf CPU chips, people who needed a CPU often used something called “bitslice.” The idea was to have a building block chip that needed some ...

The EDUC-8, a DIY minicomputer design that came out in “Electronics Australia” magazine, was almost the world’s first in August 1974. And it would have been tied for the world’s first if inventor ...

(Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA) The first minicomputer company. Commonly known as DEC or Digital, it was founded in 1957 by Kenneth Olsen, who headed the company until he retired in 1992.

Kontron unveiled the Kontron Intelligent Minicomputer or KIM product family. This extremely compact, multifunctional minicomputer series is hightly scalable, offering processors from Intel® Celeron® M ...

Many loyal, satisfied customers will lament the discontinuation of the system line that first got Hewlett-Packard into the minicomputer market. They should expect other aging and nonstrategic products ...

I never used one, but watched with awe the one we had at our school being used in the computer lab, 1980 i think it was ? There was a guru of a developer at the time who had programmed Pong off a set ...

Available now for $35, the same price as the existing previous-generation Raspberry Pi Model B+, the new version is equipped with a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor that provides around six ...

In their day, the Digital Equipment Corp. PDP series of minicomputers ruled the world. Now they have found another purpose: as toys for ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen. Allen so loves the PDP ...