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The last
MCM
computer: the
MCM
Power, 1980. (Source: York
University Computer Museum, photograph by Paul Stachniak.)
us,” said Woods. They called a single-user, stripped-down ver-
sion of the Power - the MicroPower. Looking ahead, Woods
wanted to turn away from
APL
and bit-slice technology and
enter the mainstream microcomputer field. “We were against
the tide. The tide for
APL
and all that stuff was on its way out
to the ocean somewhere to be dropped and never seen again. At
that point in time, the operating system of the day was Micro-
soft [
DOS
].”
On the financial side, Woods was working on a deal with
a United Kingdom-based investor group that was interested in
taking over
MCM
. According to Woods,
they were going to clear all the debts, buy out the share-
holders and continue the company as
MCM
. I thought it
was just fantastic. We could have generated quite a sig-
nificant Canadian presence because their pockets were
