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Line 2: === History === === The Mid-1960s to Early 1980s === The first computers were large, expensive, complex and proprietary. The move towards commodity computing began when [[Digital Equipment Corporation\|DEC]] introduced the [[PDP-8]] in 1965. This was a computer that was relatively small and inexpensive enough that a department could purchase one without convening a meeting of the board of directors. The entire [[minicomputer]] industry sprang up to supply the demand for 'small' computers like the PDP-8. Unfortunately, each of the many different brands of minicomputers had to stand on their own because there was no software and very little hardware compatibility between them.

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