20ish years old: Gray's survey of Computer Industry Laws

[James Knott]

On 06/08/2014 05:41 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I was looking for a citation for "departmental computer" which seemed to 
> be an important term in the 1980s but is very hard to find on the web.  I 
> was editting the "mainframe" entry in wikipedia.

Perhaps they were referring to minicomputers, which were common back in
the 80s.  They'd often be assigned a specific task and be used by a
department, such as accounting.  This compared with the previous
practice of everyone using terminals connected to a mainframe.


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