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1978 promotional photograph of
MCM
's next generation
MCM
/900
computer. (Source: York University Computer Museum, photogra-
pher unknown.)
Like previous
MCM
computers, the /900 model supported the
APL
language exclusively.
APL
was a powerful programming
language and, due to its spreadsheet-like features, a darling of
the insurance and actuarial industries in the 1970s - the main
focus of
MCM
marketing. In 1972, the development of an
APL
interpreter for the rudimentary microprocessor that the 8008
