Inventing the PC
Subtitle: the MCM/70 story
By: Zbigniew Stachniak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780773538528
Subjects: Microcomputers; MCM/70 (Computer); Design and construction; Computer engineering; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.