It's very true that serial computers don't get enough attention today, but I'm starting to wonder if they were underappreciated in the 70s. Serial designs were

It's very true that serial computers don't get enough attention today, but I'm starting to wonder if they were underappreciated in the 70s. Serial designs were somewhat common in the '50s but it seems they had fallen out of favour by the 70s, except when engineers needed something very low end, like a terminal or calculator. Probably because core memory is inherently parallel and had become dominant throughout the 60s, killing off drum memory and acoustic delay line memory. With the rise of silicon memory, maybe a serial CPU would have worked well for a cheap-but-powerful minicomputer in the early 70s.