Inventing the PC

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.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
At the Beginning, There Were Two	p. 9
Inventing the PC	p. 22
The Making of the MCM/70	p. 38
A new era in integrated electronics	p. 39
The team	p. 44
From the key-cassette to the M/c prototype	p. 46
MCM/APL	p. 54
The production model of the MCM/70	p. 62
Unveiling the Future	p. 65
It's All About Power	p. 80
Too much with too little?	p. 81
Sharing the power - the venture capital way	p. 92
The power supply that blacked out MCM	p. 103
Changing Fortunes	p. 114
I do have a fighting position	p. 117
A revolution of his own	p. 119
Kutt's last stand	p. 125
Horned angels of hard-pressed entrepreneurs	p. 132
The Day After	p. 137
President Berg	p. 138
Recycling the past	p. 143
Williams for Berg	p. 147
An APL machine to the end	p. 151
Conclusions	p. 164
Welcome to the computer age	p. 166
The MCM/70 personal computer	p. 169
We could have been Apple	p. 175
Why was the MCM/70 forgotten?	p. 182
MCM Timeline	p. 189
Notes	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 209
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