How to Use minicomputer in a Sentence

minicomputer

noun
  • With this hardware in place, the youngsters dialed in to an off-site minicomputer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Zeh worked on assembling and testing the minicomputers before they were shipped to customers.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The Aces had a television and minicomputer installed at each locker.
    — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Neither Rifkin nor his co-author had heard the story about minicomputers, or parts of minicomputers, taking a swim.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • That was simply a matter of getting the open-source Stockfish chess engine to run on a Raspberry Pi minicomputer.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2026
  • When asset managers in the 1970s and ’80s rushed to buy room-sized minicomputers, the first movers enjoyed a genuine edge—for perhaps two or three years.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These and the other mainframes and minicomputers of the era were room-size affairs, almost always located somewhere away from the user and almost always under the control of someone else.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The missilelike attack of the desktop computer wounded minicomputer-makers.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • This collaboration helped Wipro launch their minicomputers in India in 1981.
    — Rohini Krishnamurthy, Quartz India, 5 Jan. 2020
  • This is the story of the PDP-11, the most influential and successful minicomputer ever.
    — Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 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
  • The exhibition gave thousands of visitors an opportunity to see, and in some cases use, minicomputers, teletype equipment, high-speed copy machines, and closed-circuit television.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Getting a smart little minicomputer in your ear at HearingLife Hearing Aid Center starts with an online hearing test, then fitting you with a device that suits your life.
    — Shawn Price, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • What made programming the PDP-11 different was that the minicomputer's design was elegant.
    — Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Similarly, the first personal computers were basically toys compared to the existing minicomputers and mainframes.
    — Michael Mandel, STAT, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Clay led the development of the HP 2116A minicomputer, the company's first computer.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • The EyePal uses a quality camera, a Raspberry Pi minicomputer, machine-learning technology, and a mobile app.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2023
  • British minicomputer manufacturer Raspberry Pi has announced plans to file for a UK stock market listing, saying the initial public offering would allow the company to expand its current talent pool and product offerings.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 15 May 2024
  • Efforts to provide in situ learning aids for autistic children date back to the 1990s, when Rosalind Picard, a professor at MIT, designed a system with a headset and minicomputer that displayed emotional cues.
    — Nick Haber, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The model’s triumph arrived with Digital Equipment Corporation, whose minicomputers revolutionized computing and delivered a 500-fold return for ARD investors after its 1966 IPO.
    — David H. Hsu, Fortune, 11 May 2026

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