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Inventing the PC

Inventing the PC The MCM/70 Story

Hardback (10 May 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780773538528
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 004.165
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 404g
Height: 147mm
Width: 222mm
Spine width: 12mm