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What is a minicomputer?

What is a minicomputer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (computer hardware) A computer smaller than a mainframe, but larger than a microcomputer.
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All of a sudden, IBM PCs exchanged information easier with typical minicomputer systems than they did with mainframe computers.
Among other industrial spin-offs of Project Whirlwind was the minicomputer, developed by Kenneth Hogan of the Digital Equipment Corporation.
The team's old minicomputer is gone, long since cannibalized for parts, but Hulse does retain his original printouts, on newspaper-like green paper.
Then came the early 1990s, carnage in Boston's minicomputer industry, and much local handwringing.
A personal data assistant is a minicomputer that can fit in the palm of your hand.
Lam and his colleagues began the first leg of the computation in 1980, using a minicomputer to run through the simplest cases.

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