While the commercial systems were minicomputer and storage tube display oriented, these in-house projects tended to use mainframe computers and vector refresh displays.

Accountants working in an environment reliant on microcomputers or minicomputers must consider the typical internal control weaknesses which are prone to exist.

Before the graphical user interface (GUI), minicomputers generally required manual typing for input fields where a selection was made from a fixed list of entries.

For the most part, minicomputer sales languished and demand for mainframes declined, while PCs rocketed on the strength of a standard hardware design, widely accepted operating systems and ever-increasing processing power and affordability.

Microcomputers operating on a LAN often replace minicomputers. With a large file server, perhaps even a minicomputer, the LAN is beginning to provide very good small-scale transaction processing capabilities.

You'll be able to carry around in a laptop what used to be your minicomputer, and that will open all kinds of doors.

unlike the diffusion of mainframes and minicomputers, appears to be in the implementation or, at best, early routinization stage in most cities, which probably accounts for its lack of institutional supports.

As improvements in hardware technology continue, the distinction between microcomputers, minicomputers, and mainframes becomes less clear.

EOG decided to replace existing minicomputers with 11 HP 9000 Series 700 workstations of varying models.

In 1987, the City of La Porte had five microcomputers, and major applications, such as police, court, accounting, billing, tax and word processing, were performed on a minicomputer purchased in 1982.

After a few years, the district installed six different WAN links and clustered several VAX minicomputers together for added processing and storage power.