A Timeline of Oppressively Large Computers – Andrew Mattera
"Before the dawn of the minicomputer, mainframes were used and timeshared by universities, corporations and all sorts of other parties that needed to crunch a lot of numbers in a short amount time. The minicomputer offered a new path the computer usage, a smaller more affordable system that could be operated locally without being cost or space prohibiting. with the dawn of home computing and rise of x86 as a server technology, less and less obscenely large computers were being made. however, a select few companies in the 90s, namely SGI, IBM, and Dell, believed that they absolutely needed to build a computer that was OPPRESSIVELY LARGE. these are their stories."
These machines would probably collapse one of the display tables, so they go underneath.
