DEC's products included so-called "minicomputers" --- PDP-5, PDP-8, and PDP-11, and so-called "large computers," -- PDP-6, PDP-10, DECsystem10 (PDP-10 renamed), and DECsystem20 (PDP-10 with a newer OS). The 10's and 20's represented a small part of DEC's revenues, and were sold by the "Large Computer Group" (LCG). Members of LCG cringed whenever anyone referred to their products as "minicomputers." VAX emerged out of the minicomputer side of the house, and eventually subsumed the earlier PDP-11 and LCG product lines.

The Dec System-20 computers were mini-computers. They were computers, about the size of a Mini - ergo, the name stands.

I remember working on DECSYSTEM 10's and 20's in DEC Storage engineering when I was an FE 27 years ago. Then I was the first FE in Colorado trained on the 11780 to get it up and running for the storage engineers to get the first RH780's for the RP series drives up and running. As well DW780 that supported the UDA50 which was for the RA storage drives. Those were heady days for DEC. Man I miss those days. Back in the days when FE's still used oscilloscopes and replaced chips.

The 2020/2040/2060/2065 hardly fit the name Mini-computer. A VAX 730/750/780 might. The DEC-10/DEC-20 were large time sharing mainframes, as in 2 or 3 - 6 foot cabinets. If you don't have 36 bits, you are not playing with a full DEC. %DECSYSTEM-20 Continued...

I've received exactly ONE spam text message. Not too shabby considering how bad it sounds in other places like China.

DEC was always ahead of its time on technology. Never thought it was when it came to marketing though.