Inventing the PC : The MCM/70 Story.
Stachniak, Zbigniew.
Inventing the PC : The MCM/70 Story. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 At the Beginning, There Were Two -- 2 Inventing the PC -- 3 The Making of the MCM/70 -- A new era in integrated electronics -- The team -- From the key-cassette to the M/C prototype -- MCM/APL -- The production model of the MCM/70 -- 4 Unveiling the Future -- 5 It's All About Power -- Too much with too little? -- Sharing the power - the venture capital way -- The power supply that blacked out MCM -- 6 Changing Fortunes -- I do have a fighting position -- A revolution of his own -- Kutt's last stand -- Horned angels of hard-pressed entrepreneurs -- 7 The Day After -- President Berg -- Recycling the past -- Williams for Berg -- An APL machine to the end -- Conclusions -- Welcome to the computer age! -- The MCM/70 personal computer -- We could have been Apple -- Why was the MCM/70 forgotten? -- MCM Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
In May 1973, Micro Computer Machines, a Toronto-based electronics company, gave a public demonstration of a small computer called the MCM/70. Powered by a microprocessor and operated with APL, a sophisticated programming language, the MCM/70 was positioned to be a practical, affordable, and easy-to-use personal computer - the very first of its kind.
9780773581463
MCM/70 (Computer).
Microcomputers--Canada--Design and construction--History.
Computer engineering--Canada--History.
Electronic books.
QA76.8.M43 S73 2011
004.165
Inventing the PC : The MCM/70 Story. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 At the Beginning, There Were Two -- 2 Inventing the PC -- 3 The Making of the MCM/70 -- A new era in integrated electronics -- The team -- From the key-cassette to the M/C prototype -- MCM/APL -- The production model of the MCM/70 -- 4 Unveiling the Future -- 5 It's All About Power -- Too much with too little? -- Sharing the power - the venture capital way -- The power supply that blacked out MCM -- 6 Changing Fortunes -- I do have a fighting position -- A revolution of his own -- Kutt's last stand -- Horned angels of hard-pressed entrepreneurs -- 7 The Day After -- President Berg -- Recycling the past -- Williams for Berg -- An APL machine to the end -- Conclusions -- Welcome to the computer age! -- The MCM/70 personal computer -- We could have been Apple -- Why was the MCM/70 forgotten? -- MCM Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
In May 1973, Micro Computer Machines, a Toronto-based electronics company, gave a public demonstration of a small computer called the MCM/70. Powered by a microprocessor and operated with APL, a sophisticated programming language, the MCM/70 was positioned to be a practical, affordable, and easy-to-use personal computer - the very first of its kind.
9780773581463
MCM/70 (Computer).
Microcomputers--Canada--Design and construction--History.
Computer engineering--Canada--History.
Electronic books.
QA76.8.M43 S73 2011
004.165