How to Use minicomputer in a Sentence

minicomputer

noun

• This is the story of the PDP-11, the most influential and successful minicomputer ever.
  — Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
• But by 1992, the state’s minicomputer makers were on the wrong side of the personal computer revolution.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
• Those minicomputer giants mostly failed to adapt to the PC and Internet revolutions, and the region wasn't able to nurture a new crop of technology giants to take their place.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2018
• Faulkner wrote all the original code on a Data General Eclipse 16-bit minicomputer the size of a refrigerator.
  — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• What made programming the PDP-11 different was that the minicomputer's design was elegant.
  — Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
• Hear about biodigestors and their role in addressing global energy issues, and work as a team to build a minicomputer to monitor the conditions in your energy system.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• This collaboration helped Wipro launch their minicomputers in India in 1981.
  — Rohini Krishnamurthy, Quartz India, 5 Jan. 2020
• Smartphones are technically minicomputers, giving their owners the ability to download interactive apps and games in a push of a button.
  — Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
• The missilelike attack of the desktop computer wounded minicomputer-makers.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Similarly, the first personal computers were basically toys compared to the existing minicomputers and mainframes.
  — Michael Mandel, STAT, 27 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024