A fine point, though keep in mind though that Mini-computers were themselves sort of the PCs of the mainframe era. A story I heard, possibly apocryphal, is that

A fine point, though keep in mind though that Mini-computers were themselves sort of the PCs of the mainframe era. A story I heard, possibly apocryphal, is that Ken Olsen named DEC "digital equipment corporation" rather than , say "Digital Computer Corporation," as a way around IBMs lock on central purchasing at universities, national labs and corporations for any "computer" purchases.