The Day After - Inventing the PC - page 137

1976 promotional photograph of the MCM /800. (Source: York
University Computer Museum, photographer unknown.)
starts at $1,000 a month,” explained Berg during a 1977 pres-
entation to press and industry representatives. “Our unit on a
full payout lease over five years could run about $350 a month.
We're going to try to make a computer available to small users,
or individuals who are not scientists or engineers. Anybody can
use one; even retail stores are using computers. The software
makes it possible, and APL as a high-level language. The major
advantage with APL is you don't tell the computer how to do
anything; you tell it what you want, not how.”
In early 1974, in a document entitled Micro Computer Ma-
chines: Development Policy , Ramer sketched two possible de-
velopmental paths for the company. One was based on giving