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curprev 18:5518:55, 25 May 2025 TonySt talk contribs m 24,777 bytes −121 Reverted 1 edit by 2600:387:15:5037:0:0:0:2 (talk) to last revision by Paritybit.ca undo Tags: Twinkle Undo
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curprev 12:0512:05, 30 March 2025 Paritybit.ca talk contribs 24,777 bytes −125 Remove note about "non-experts" using the terminology wrong, as this is a very elitist-worded statement not actually backed up by any source as far as I can see. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 01:5501:55, 4 March 2025 AnomieBOT talk contribs m 24,476 bytes +16 Dating maintenance tags: {{Dubious-span}} undo
curprev 01:3501:35, 4 March 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 24,460 bytes +224 Honestly, the whole "distinguishing IBM-like mid-size computers from minicomputers" thing is dubious, and is not unlike how a bunch of Marines just REALLY do not like to be called soldiers – which they technically are, no matter the unforced error of their somehow making this a point of (foolish) pride. This IBM-like mid-size distinction smells exactly the same. Smells like... status anxiety. Entitled status anxiety. Not a great quality, in IBMers or Marines. undo

curprev 21:5621:56, 28 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 24,236 bytes 0 moving this image lower down into the Definition section because it illustrates well how "some models eventually shrunk to a similar size as large microcomputers" – admittedly the DG Nova would likely have been rack-mounted together with attached storage options, and one might even argue that in and of itself this exhibit isn't the full mini; still it illustrates the general point on size undo

curprev 00:3900:39, 26 February 2025 Tony1 talk contribs m 24,236 bytes +9 Script-assisted style fixes, script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM undo

curprev 19:1319:13, 6 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,696 bytes +184 →Definition undo
curprev 00:1400:14, 6 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,512 bytes +116 →Definition: If I didn't add this here, then my earlier inclusion of the G-15 below would make this article contradict itself. undo

curprev 23:1423:14, 5 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,396 bytes −26 The Intel 4004 wasn't really used in minicomputers, and while it heralded the microchip CPU age, it's only tangentially related. It's a charming diversion here – but still, removed as false precision and off-topic. undo
curprev 10:0310:03, 5 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,422 bytes +7 the midrange system moniker tends to have more of an IBM bent: reflect that; also, the "later" info doesn't actually need to be reduplicated with "post-" undo

curprev 09:4309:43, 4 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,415 bytes −33 Move survey out of lede, since those specs only represent a fleeting snapshot of where the industry was at publication, however this does not cover most of the lifetime of minicomputers or even the 1965s–1985s minicomputer era. undo
curprev 09:3609:36, 4 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,448 bytes +68 Not "today", Wikipedia. Not "today". undo
curprev 09:1109:11, 4 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,380 bytes −153 We don't actually need these peacocky examples here. The lede is already long undo
curprev 09:0309:03, 4 February 2025 ReadOnlyAccount talk contribs 23,533 bytes +555 contextualise "small" -- use "mostly" because of the 1950s G-15 minicomputer undo

curprev 22:1822:18, 3 February 2025 2600:1700:56a0:4680:a414:9b61:8102:785b talk 22,978 bytes +13 →Mid-1980s and 1990s decline: 16 bit mini computers all but disappeared in the 80s but 16-bit microcomputers remained alive and well at the time such as Intel 2086 & 386sx PC's, undo

curprev 12:1312:13, 8 January 2025 Citation bot talk contribs 22,965 bytes −48 Alter: url, template type. URLs might have been anonymized. Add: isbn, publisher, authors 1-1. Removed parameters. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Dominic3203 | Category:Classes of computers | #UCB_Category 17/91 undo

curprev 07:3407:34, 13 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 22,653 bytes +45 →Mid-1980s and 1990s decline: Neither Alpha nor IA-64 processors are being made any more, but OpenVMS is still available - running on x86-64 processors. undo