[inforoots] GRiD and the IEEE 488 GPIB

[Barrie Robinson]

I was Director of Marketing for MCM for a while - those were funny days !!


At 06:09 PM 2/18/2006, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:
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> >>>> Was Micro Computer Machinery of Kingston & Toronto, Ontario 
> the first "PC" with their little APL machine of the mid 70's??.  It 
> was small enough to be called a laptop
>I happened to ask the same question of Zbigniew Stachniak last 
>summer.  Zbigniew is an MCM expert; he wrote an article for the 
>September 2003 issue of 
>CORE. 
><http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/CORE4.1.pdf>http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/CORE4.1.pdf 
>(It begins on page six.)
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>My email to him said, "Do you consider the MCM a desktop or a portable?"
>
>He replied, "The MCM/70 was intended to be both -- mostly to sit on 
>a desk but also to be transportable from one place to another (there 
>was a special case to carry it). A number of early users used the 
>MCM/70 as a portable device dragging it from home to an office and 
>back to home (I think, I'm quoting one such person who did just that 
>in my paper "The MCM/70 Microcomputer", Annals of the History of 
>Computing, 2003. I was told by one of the MCM employees that an 
>early model of the MCM/70 was taken by someone on a three month 
>sailing cruse. The MCM/70 box was returned covered in salt but it 
>was still working -- clearly 'portable'.)"
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>[mailto:inforoots-bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of Barrie Robinson
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>This is just a shot into the darkness of computing history.  Was 
>Micro Computer Machinery of Kingston & Toronto, Ontario the first 
>"PC" with their little APL machine of the mid 70's??.  It was small 
>enough to be called a laptop
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Regards
Barrie

Barrie Robinson
(705) 721-9060 
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