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MCM/70

Integrated circuits made it feasible to build ‘microcomputers’, or personal computers.

The first was Canadian: Mers Kutt's MCM/70 in 1973: $3 500, Intel 8008 microprocessor, 0.2 MHz, 8 Kbytes of RAM + 14 Kbytes of ROM.

It was followed by the MITS Altair (1974), Apple (1976), ...


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