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  • Formaat: Hardback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm, 41 photos
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-May-2011
  • Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0773538526
  • ISBN-13: 9780773538528
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x140 mm, 41 photos
  • Ilmumisaeg: 10-May-2011
  • Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0773538526
  • ISBN-13: 9780773538528
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Märksõnad:
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.


Inventing the PC details the invention and design of the MCM/70 computer and the prolonged struggle to bring it to market. Zbigniew Stachniak offers an insider's view of events on the front lines of pioneering work on personal computers. He shows what information and options PC pioneers had, how well they understood what they were doing, and how that understanding - or lack thereof - shaped both their engineering ingenuity and the indecisiveness and over-reaching ambition that would ultimately turn a very promising venture into a missed opportunity. Providing comprehensive historical background and rich photographic documentation, Inventing the PC tells the story of a Canadian company on the cutting-edge of the information age.

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"Stachniak has written an entertaining, highly informative account of the struggle to create a useful and marketable desktop computer. Although far different from today's personal computer, MCM's early machines, such as the MCM/70, were remarkably innovative and on the market long before the fabled Apple II or the nearly useless Altair. Unfortunately, MCM was ahead of its time. Nonetheless, this is a great book and a must for any fan of the history of the modern computer. Highly recommended." CHOICE

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A uniquely Canadian story of the company that promised a new era in computing.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3(6)
1 At the Beginning, There Were Two
9(13)
2 Inventing the PC
22(16)
3 The Making of the MCM/70
38(27)
A new era in integrated electronics
39(5)
The team
44(2)
From the key-cassette to the M/C prototype
46(8)
MCM/APL
54(8)
The production model of the MCM/70
62(3)
4 Unveiling the Future
65(15)
5 It's All About Power
80(34)
Too much with too little?
81(11)
Sharing the power - the venture capital way
92(11)
The power supply that blacked out MCM
103(11)
6 Changing Fortunes
114(23)
I do have a fighting position
117(2)
A revolution of his own
119(6)
Kutt's last stand
125(7)
Horned angels of hard-pressed entrepreneurs
132(5)
7 The Day After
137(27)
President Berg
138(5)
Recycling the past
143(4)
Williams for Berg
147(4)
An APL machine to the end
151(13)
Conclusions
164(25)
Welcome to the computer age!
166(3)
The MCM/70 personal computer
169(6)
We could have been Apple
175(7)
Why was the MCM/70 forgotten?
182(7)
MCM Timeline 189(8)
Notes 197(6)
Bibliography 203(6)
Index 209
Zbigniew Stachniak is an associate professor of computer science, York University, and the curator of York University's Computer Museum.