Notices by David Fox 🌻🥸 (davidbfox@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

We couldn’t have created MCC without following in the footsteps of those who did essentially the same thing with the previous generation of computers. We spent time at the Lawrence Hall of Science (they had a room filled with teletype machines tied to a minicomputer) and Liza Loop and the LO*OP Center, a minicomputer and CRT terminals https://loopcenter.org/

Our timing was perfect to take advantage of the brand new standalone microcomputers.

Big question for us, Sol-20s or the new Apple II?

We opted for the Sol-20. Why?
1. Could type and display upper and lower case and we thought many of our members would want to do word processing.
2. We liked the friendly look, with real walnut sides
3. Bigger support infrastructure for S-100 bus computers at the time
4. Sol-20 creator Lee Felsenstein made himself very available to help us. So supportive!

Coming later... being pitched the Apple II by the Steves...

In the meantime, here's another article that Annie wrote for a 1984 issue of #CreativeComputing https://electriceggplant.com/you_want_to_open_a_what.html

More on the Processor Technology Sol-20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol-20
Look at those beautiful real walnut sides!

The logo was printed on paper positioned behind a plastic window, so we replaced it and dropped in our Marin Computer Center logo instead, illustrated by my sister Randee Fox.