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My first idea from the title was a historical product, something with RAM expansion, multi-user OS and hard drive. A minicomputer. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by Maakuth 9y ago
My first idea from the title was a historical product, something with RAM expansion, multi-user OS and hard drive. A minicomputer. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer)
- cr0sh 9y agoI was actually expecting something like a fully transistor re-creation of the CPU, graphics, sound, etc - stuff into a minicomputer cabinet of some sort. Something crazy like that. But this is interesting too.
- pnutjam 9y agoAfew years ago you could have got one of these. https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/C64DTV https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/C64DTV
- slantyyz 9y agoI'm in the same boat. When I was growing up, a mini computer was huge. When I was in high school, some of my programming courses were on Digital PDP mini computers. I remember writing BASIC programs with a Sharpie on optical mark reader cards. Debugging was a nightmare, you'd run your cards through the reader, look at the printer output and debug back at your desk by sorting through your cards. This was in the mid 80s -- the Apple ][ at home was better tech than what we had at my school.
- linsomniac 9y agoJust last week I explained to the kids that a mini computer is pretty huge. My 8 yo boy had said something about this tiny computer and called it a minicomputer. "Mini computers are pretty huge. At the time they were made, computers filled rooms, so a computer the size of a washing machine WAS small. And the big computer on your desk is a microcomputer because it's even smaller." Mind. Blown.