Mers Kutt

Kutt is a Canadian, an entrepreneur and a technical wizard who also happens to be the inventor of the MCM 70 – the world’s first personal computer. Unveiled by Micro Computer Machine 30 years ago, and built at least four years before Apple, the MC 70 has been recognized as the first of its kind in a recent issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, a respected U.S.-based journal. Kutt’s vision, to create a small but powerful computer for personal use (ergo the term, “personal computer”, came to him while he was a professor at Queen’s University in the late 1960s.

He is also founder of the key edit, a data preparation system that succeeded the IBM punch card, as well as the “All Card” and the “All Charge Card”, which gave a computer more speed and memory. Kutt was the founder of Consolidated Computer Inc., and President of the Canadian Information Processing Society.