[Usagi Electric] has a Centurion, which is a 1980s-vintage minicomputer based on a bitslice processor. He wanted to use it to write assembly language programs targeting the same system (or an ...

It allows him to make engineering drawings with a light pen. A typical minicomputer costs about $20,000. 1965: An IC that cost $1000 in 1959 now costs less than $10. Gordon Moore predicts that the ...