Zbigniew Stachniak is an associate professor of computer science, York University, and the curator of York University's Computer Museum.
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| At the Beginning, There Were Two | |
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| Inventing the PC | |
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| The Making of the MCM/70 | |
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| A new era in integrated electronics | |
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| The team | |
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| From the key-cassette to the M/c prototype | |
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| MCM/APL | |
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| The production model of the MCM/70 | |
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| Unveiling the Future | |
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| It's All About Power | |
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| Too much with too little? | |
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| Sharing the power - the venture capital way | |
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| The power supply that blacked out MCM | |
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| Changing Fortunes | |
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| I do have a fighting position | |
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| A revolution of his own | |
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| Kutt's last stand | |
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| Horned angels of hard-pressed entrepreneurs | |
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| The Day After | |
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| President Berg | |
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| Recycling the past | |
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| Williams for Berg | |
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| An APL machine to the end | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Welcome to the computer age | |
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| The MCM/70 personal computer | |
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| We could have been Apple | |
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| Why was the MCM/70 forgotten? | |
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| MCM Timeline | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
Zbigniew Stachniak is an associate professor of computer science, York University, and the curator of York University's Computer Museum.