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- title: AN EARLY PRODUCTION MODEL OF THE MCM/70, 1974
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- title: York University Computer Museum
url: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/collections/MCM/MCM.htm
text: detailed list of their impressive MCM collection
comments:
- author: Achim Baqué
date: Sunday 12th September 2021
text: Hi, I am a vintage computer collector. Please contact me (E-Mail via my website) if you have the MCM 70 to offer.
- author: Alvin Ginsburg (United States)
date: Friday 4th September 2015
text: I bought one of these at IBM in order to get funding for the IBM 5100. The management didn''t believe you could actually put a computer on a disk, and lo and behold, without a raised floor. So, I bought the HP 9830, a Wang 2200 and an MCM/70. When Dave Slattery a vice president of development told me you couldn''t put a Basic compiler into less than 128k I wheeled one of these machines into his office. I got the funding, a story for another day about politics and bureaucracy.
- author: tOM Trottier (Ottawa, Canada)
date: Monday 23rd March 2015
text: I programmed these in APL in the summer of 1974, mainly converting mainframe functions $ workspaces to the MCM/700 environment. I still have some stock certificates....
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