Inventing the PC The MCM/70 Story

Name: Inventing the PC The MCM/70 Story
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ISBN: 9780773538528

ISBN-10: 0773538526

ISBN-13: 9780773538528

Edition: 2011

Authors: Zbigniew Stachniak

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 5/10/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

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