...ch the employees accessed remotely through “dumb” terminals connected to the minicomputers via small, rudimentary in-building networks. The minicomput... ...ing and other basic PC tools that would not have to be relearned on a legacy minicomputer system. The mature applications that emerged from the PC’s u... ...n top of AT&T’s phone network were natural extensions of the 1960s IBM-model minicomputer usage within businesses: one centrally managed machine to wh... ...s on the PC itself was limited. T o attach to the Internet, one would need a minicomputer or workstation of the sort typi- cally found within universi... ...et. Few of them were PCs. 1 Instead, the Net was the province of mainframes, minicomputers, and professional workstations found at government offices, u... ...1, 101–2; hardware and software bun- dled in, 9; mainframes, 12, 15, 24, 57; minicomputers, 15; professional man- agement of, 17, 44; rogue applicatio...