+1. Gorden Bell said a new computer category would enter the market every decade [1]. PDP-8 and later the PDP-11 were the quintessential minicomputer category m

+1. Gorden Bell said a new computer category would enter the market every decade [1]. PDP-8 and later the PDP-11 were the quintessential minicomputer category makers. They were basically the microcomputer-equivalent in the 1970s. Both brought great cost reduction in their respective eras. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_law_of_computer_classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_law_of_computer_class...