At 15:02 11/7/97 +0300, you wrote:
>Yeah, I'm mostly interested in collecting micros, but I forget how big
>minis are....
They vary. There are rack-mount minis, like an HP 2115 or some of the
smaller DG's, that you can pick up singlehanded, although you won't love
yourself for it. On the other end, our SDS 930 -- 14 racks, 5.5 tons
probably counting spares and docs -- is just the size that some people,
including me, call it a small mainframe, and some call it a mini. A PDP-1,
to take another example, is absolutely a mini, but if you add a Fastrand
(drum) and a goodly squad of tape drives, you have a fairly imposing computer.
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Received on Fri Nov 07 1997 - 10:03:22 GMT