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Author Stachniak, Zbigniew

Title Inventing the PC : #N/A / Zbigniew Stachniak
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : MQUP, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 At the Beginning, There Were Two""; ""2 Inventing the PC""; ""3 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""; ""4 Unveiling the Future""; ""5 It�s All About Power""; ""Too much with too little?""; ""Sharing the power � the venture capital way""; ""The power supply that blacked out MCM""; ""6 Changing Fortunes""; ""I do have a fighting position""; ""A revolution of his own""
""Kutt�s last stand""""Horned angels of hard-pressed entrepreneurs""; ""7 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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Analysis JSTOR-DDA
MCM /70 (Computer)
Microcomputers Canada Design and construction History
Computer engineering Canada History
Subject MCM/70 (Computer)
Microcomputers -- Canada -- Design and construction -- History
Computer engineering -- Canada -- History
Computer engineering.
MCM/70 (Computer)
Microcomputers -- Design and construction.
Canada.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773581463
0773581464