25 May
2024
25 May
'24
1:29 a.m.
Gak, 4k ram but 100k via virtual memory TO CASSETTE? I want one just for that. LOL Was
the cassette multi-track with one track containing timing marks, so records would not
overlay each other?
I guess I would argue the definition of a PERSONAL computer is if many or (preferably)
nearly all of them were purchased from personal accounts (credit card, check, or cash via
some kind of money order) as opposed to corporate or business accounts likely subject to
double entry bookkeeping and depreciation. Maybe being depreciated is the definition of
NOT personal?
For instance, I doubt more than one or two of those LGP-30s were purchased from a personal
account, and if so, probably by a start-up that was not yet into having a corporate
account.
This web page https://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/MCM_70_microcomputer.htm
indicates they were sold to corporations and universities, so the in the same category as
the LGP-30, which predated it by many years.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 05/24/2024 10:34 AM CDT Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 5/24/24 07:57, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
(I could be mistaken about the mentioned 8008
device, but I think that was a training device, no?)
Do your homewoork--the MCM-70 ran APL, had cassette storage and a
display and keyboard. The MITS 8800 had nothing other than RAM and a
CPU. APL would have been a distant dream.
Of course, the MCM0/70 was Canadian, and not USAn...
--Chuck