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Inventing the PC : The MCM/70 Story.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773581463
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inventing the PCDDC classification:
  • 004.165
LOC classification:
  • QA76.8.M43 S73 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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