The Making of the MCM/70 - Inventing the PC - page 45

The MCM /70 bare-
bones system. (3 D
model of the com-
puter courtesy of
André Arpin.)
Also in early 1973, Kutt took the desktop prototype of the
MCM /70 to Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara and demon-
strated it to Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, co-founders
of Intel. The APL interpreter for the 8008 processor generated
a lot of excitement. “They didn't believe that this little chip
they were producing could do that much.” 7 According to Kutt,
Noyce's favorite part of the demonstration was a horse-racing
game written in APL for the MCM /70 computer and its little
one-line plasma display.
There were other prototypes of the MCM /70, such as a
bare-bones lab version, built soon after the rack prototype.
A number of these lab machines were put together and used
for software development. “They were square boxes, the tape
[drive mounted] on the front,” recalled Arpin. “And you could
carry them home. And I had one of those machines.”
But one of the most successful demonstrators that the com-
pany put together had, in fact, no hardware at all. “We had a
cardboard mockup of the computer,” recalled Morgan Smyth.
“It … was a small, slick little box … it was just cardboard. And