Mini Computers

• 1959 cost ~$1000 1965 cost < $10.

• IBM 360 – 1964

  • quickly becomes standard institutional mainframe computer.
  • Revenue by mid 80’s of 360 and descendants > $100 billion in revenue for IBM.

• 1965 – Moore’s law (Gordon Moore)

  • no. of components in an Integrated Circuit will double every year.

• Intel founded in 1968 – Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce

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