Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story by Stachniak, Zbigniew

Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story

Inventing the PC details the invention and design of the MCM/70 computer and the prolonged struggle to...
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Author: Zbigniew Stachniak
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Language: English
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Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story by Stachniak, Zbigniew

Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story

$567.12

Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story

$567.12
Author: Zbigniew Stachniak
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Zbigniew Stachniak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 05/10/2011
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780773538528


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2011

About the Author
Zbigniew Stachniak is an associate professor of computer science, York University, and the curator of York University's Computer Museum.


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