Anyone Who Thinks Apple Will Rule The World Forever Should Look At This Picture

Know what this is? It's one of the first mass-produced mini-computers--the PDP 8.  The PDP-8 was made by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965. It cost $18,000. It was much less powerful and vastly harder to use than a cheap smartphone is today. The PDP-8 and similar machines made Digital Equipment Corporation the leader in the mini-computer revolution. Mini-computers provided a vast price-performance-and-usage improvement over mainframes, so they quickly took over the corporate computing wor...