41. Around 1970, Digital Equipment Corporation donated two small rackmount PDP-11 minicomputers . 42. It was the first database management system included with a business-class minicomputer . 43. HP repositioned the HP-150 as a workstation for the HP 3000 minicomputer . 44. Programming of this minicomputer was via assembler language. 45. Instead, the minicomputer created a long sequence of short-stroke display instructions. 46. The HP3000 minicomputer is still in use today. 47. Basic / Four sold small business minicomputers that were assembled from Microdata Corporation CPUs. 48. In addition, minicomputers were relatively interactive and soon had their own operating systems. 49. The control store on some minicomputers was one or more programmable logic array chips. 50. In the 1980s, its Vax minicomputers were as hot as Intel chips are today.
