Editing MCM/70 (section)

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| name = MCM/70
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| image = MCM Model 70 microcomputer 1974.jpg
| caption = MCM Model 70 microcomputer, 1974
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| manufacturer = MCM Computers
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| releasedate = {{Start date and age|1974}}
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| media = Cassette tape
| os = [[APL (programming language)|APL language]]
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| cpu = [[Intel 8008]]
| memory = 2 to 8 [[kilobyte|KB]]
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| display = Alphanumeric single line display
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| weight = 9 kg
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| CPUspeed = 0.8 [[MHz]]
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The '''MCM/70<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=MCM 70 / 700 MCM Computers |url=https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=346 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925005918/https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=346 |archive-date=2023-09-25 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.old-computers.com}}</ref>''' is a pioneering [[microcomputer]] first built in 1973 in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spacing.ca/toronto/2015/04/15/toronto-invented-pc-forgot/|title=How Toronto invented the PC, then forgot about it|last=Bateman|first=Chris|website=Spacing|date=April 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://www.canadianbusiness.com/business-strategy/idea-nation/ "Idea nation"]. ''Canadian Business'', Dec 25, 2006 Andy Holloway</ref> and released the next year. This makes it one of the first microcomputers in the world, the second to be shipped in completed form, and the first [[portable computer]].{{cn|date=September 2024}}  The MCM/70 was the product of [[Micro Computer Machines]], one of three related companies set up in [[Toronto]] in 1971 by [[Mers Kutt]]. It is considered by some historians{{who|date=December 2023}} to be the first usable personal microcomputer system.<ref>Caroline Alphonso, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-hailed-as-father-of-pc/article1167114/ "Canadian hailed as father of PC"], ''Globe and Mail'', 20 September 2003</ref><ref name="Schell2007">{{cite book|last=Schell|first=Bernadette Hlubik|title=The Internet and Society: A Reference Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPFrOIsUKTkC&pg=PA145|year=2007|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-031-5|pages=145–}}</ref><ref name="Inc.1980">{{cite journal|last=Craig|first=John|title=Viewpoint|journal=InfoWorld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pj4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT9|date=13 October 1980|publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.|pages=9–|issn=0199-6649}}</ref>