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The
IBM
5100 computer could be programmed in both
APL
and
BASIC
. (Source: York University Computer Museum, photograph by
Z. Stachniak.)
the
IBM
5100 computer on
MCM
operations in feigned enthusi-
asm for their common mission. In his letter he wrote:
Dear Friend,
I'm writing to you as a fellow member of the commun-
ity of people familiar with
APL
, and interested in seeing
more widespread use of this simple, powerful computer
language …
Until the fall of this year, we were able to call ourselves
manufacturers of the only portable
APL
computer. Now,
we can still describe our unit, the
MCM
/700, as the
world's first and smallest.
