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30th Anniversary of the Microcomputer

Posted by michael on from the not-even-a-real-country-anyway dept.

FreezerJam writes "The Toronto Star is running an article on the 30th anniversary of the launch of the MCM/70, the first personal computer, complete with tape drive and APL programming environment. For those of you checking your timeline, this is over a year before the article on the Altair 8800 was published. Microcomputers? Blame Canada!" There's also a story in the Globe and Mail.

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  1. Re:Has Apple ever been first with anything? by Sophrosyne · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They were the first to apply monopolistic business practices to the computer industry, transforming it into the multi-billion dollar industry it is today....
    It just happened in the end that Bill Gates was a better monopolist than Jobs.