Canadian Hailed as Father of PC
Caroline Alphonso,
Globe, Mail,
Sept 25, 2003
From the 'setting the record straight' department: although most people credit the American company Apple with having invented the PC, the MCM-70 Microcomputer, developed by Canadian Mers Kutt 30 years ago, four years before the Apple, has been recognized as the first PC by the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Kutt on the long overdue recognition: "There are many reason why this is great. I think in Canada, if anybody gets recognized for something they did, it's good. In some fields - and computers is one of them - we haven't done a lot to acknowledge what has been done. We're all proud of having done it. We definitely knew we were doing something that was just a total breakthrough and that nothing else had been accomplished like that. There's a lot of people out there, and I won't mention the companies, but they write articles about themselves having built it. In Canada, we don't really look for big acknowledgments unless they sort of come your way. This was a bit of a fluke the way it all happened."
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