Editing MCM/70 (section)

==Demise and legacy==
By the late 1970s, after selling several hundred units,<ref name="InnovNation"/> MCM was facing competition from several [[home computer]] systems with the same computing power as their own machines. Although they were designing another more advanced microcomputer, termed ''A*2'', the funding needed for rapid development was unavailable. By 1983, the firm had ceased operating.

Rights to the in-progress A*2 design were sold to [[Ampex]]. They worked on the design for about a year before also ceasing development. This machine, called ''Sysmo'', was sold in [[France]] by Sysmo company from 1975. This start-up was funded in [[Paris]] by Michel Carlier, an engineer who had invested also in MCM, with his own capital. However, the machine was sold for management applications while it was programmed with a complex scientific language (APL) much better adapted to scientific and technical fields; Sysmo company filed for bankruptcy in 1978. The stock of MCM/Sysmo was bought by French company Generale d'Electricite (later [[Alcatel-Lucent|Alcatel]]) for its own use because of the product's mathematical computing features.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

In 2011, [[York University]] professor Zbigniew Stachniak published a book about the development of the MCM/70, titled ''Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story''.<ref>David C. Brock, [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476817 "Inventing the PC: The MCM/70 Story (review)"].  ''Technology and Culture'' Volume 53, Number 2, April 2012 pp. 518-519 | 10.1353/tech.2012.0077</ref>  A collection of papers, illustrations and hardware related to the device have been included in the York University Computer Museum.