1 10 1 https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/files/original/6001be2a5357cac7c40ec44e80c7306c.jpg d3e8dd4821717ac4bd90e8e5200fc230 hardware A computer (or a calculator), its components and peripherals (displays, printers, pointing devices, modems, external storage devices, etc). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MCM DDS-1000 Diskette System Description An account of the resource Historical context (by Z. Stachniak) In December 1971, Mers Kutt and Gordon Ramer incorporated Kutt Systems Inc. (later renamed as Micro Computer Machines or MCM) in Toronto, with the purpose of designing, building, and marketing a small desktop microcomputer to be known as the MCM/70. The computer  was to be an inexpensive, APL programmable, general-purpose computer that would ``bridge the gap between the sophisticated [programmable] calculators that offer simplicity of operation but fail to provide the information processing capability of the computer... and the large, complex computers that require such high degrees of training and experience as to place them beyond the operational capabilities of most people who want to use them.'' [From an MCM/70 promotional brochure] The MCM/70 was to appeal to both computer experts and novices alike. The computer was offered in mid 1974 with up to two built-in cassette drives offering approximately 200KB of external storage. In 1975, MCM upgraded the MCM/70 to the /700 model and  offered a range of peripherals including two diskette storage systems: the SDS 250 (single disk drive, 250KB of storage) and the DDS 500 (dual diskette storage system, 500KB). In 1977, MCM introduced the DDS 1000 Diskette System designed as a mass storage for the MCM/700, /800, and /900 computers. It offered  1 MB of storage on 8" diskettes. The museum has two MCM DDS-1000 Diskette Systems (serial numbers 544903 and 501807), one DDS-500  Diskette Systema (serial number 376901) well as  DDS-1000 Diskette Drive User's Manual, MCM Computers Ltd., rev. AA (October 1978). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Micro Computer Machines Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context H.91 Subject The topic of the resource computer hardware: external storage Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant North America, 1976-1980s Canadian disk drive MCM MDP1000 Micro Computer machine