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Inventing the PC The MCM/70 Story

Stachniak, Zbigniew
ISBN-10: 0773538526
ISBN-13: 9780773538528

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Zbigniew Stachniak is an associate professor of computer science, York University, and the curator of York University's Computer Museum.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
At the Beginning, There Were Two
Inventing the PC
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
Unveiling the Future
It's All About Power
Too much with too little?
Sharing the power - the venture capital way
The power supply that blacked out MCM
Changing Fortunes
I do have a fighting position
A revolution of his own
Kutt's last stand
Horned angels of hard-pressed entrepreneurs
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
Zbigniew Stachniak is an associate professor of computer science, York University, and the curator of York University's Computer Museum.

Edition: 2011
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.88 lbs.
Language: English

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