Mini Computer

These were sold in the 60's as the next step after a mainframe, a mini computer was defined as any computer under 25,000 USD. These mini computers were able to run programs in a higher level language due to having at least 4 thousand words of memory, and input-output devices such as a display and teleprinters. The business of making and selling minicomputers was only big between 1965 and 1985, almost 100 companies formed to make these minicomputers and only some of them still remained to continue to the next level of computers. Micro Computers lie in the area between Mainframe computers and micro computers, they are bigger than micro computers but not as large scale as a mainframe.