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Re:Red Hook’s Cutting-Edge Wireless Network by adamfeldman on Saturday August 23, 2014 @01:21PM (#8216290)
"He was examining two devices on the roof while wirelessly conversing with a minicomputer a few hundred feet away..."

What's a minicomputer?

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Re:Red Hook’s Cutting-Edge Wireless Network by DigitalJack on Saturday August 23, 2014 @01:31PM (#8216313)
Maybe a raspberry pi could be called a minicomputer today. It meant something a little smaller than a mainframe in decades past.
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Re:Red Hook’s Cutting-Edge Wireless Network by adamfeldman on Saturday August 23, 2014 @01:44PM (#8216350)
I like that, it really works well. Repurposing yesterday's jargon for today's innovations.

I still think the writer should work on that word choice though....

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Re:Red Hook’s Cutting-Edge Wireless Network by adamfeldman on Saturday August 23, 2014 @05:14PM (#8216887)
Replying since I can't edit my comment any longer: someone deleted their reply to me, but they pointed out Raspberry Pi and Arduinos are already known as Nanocomputers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanocomputer
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