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[Monte Davis]

John Carvill quotes Answers.com:

> Minicomputers came on to the 
> scene in the early 1980s in small businesses, manufacturing 
> plants, and factories.

15-20 years late there. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer
instead:

"The term "mini computer" evolved in the 1960s to describe the "small" third
generation computers that became possible with the use of transistor and
core memory technologies. They usually took up one or a few cabinets the
size of a large refrigerator or two, compared with mainframes that would
usually fill a room. The first successful minicomputer was Digital Equipment
Corporation’s 12-bit PDP-8, which cost from US$16,000 upwards when launched
in 1964..."