On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
>
> > I wonder how many other computers have had an article devoted
> > to them in the New Yorker magazine:
> >
> > http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?010528fr_archive02
>
> An interesting article. The original sale price in 1960 was $24,500.
> The unit also ran off of standard line voltage (110) and required no
> additional cooling. It could be moved from any location to any location
> and used just about anywhere.
>
> So this begs the question, why did the PDP-8 create the "mini-computer"
> class and not this or other machines with similar attributes?
I would guess:
Factor of ~1000 speed difference.
I/O flexibility.
The Monrobot would be too slow for lots of lab and process control
applications that the PDP8 handles easily
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