The MCM/70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 , another early microcomputer which failed to thrive, was also an APL machi

The MCM/70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 , another early microcomputer which failed to thrive, was also an APL machine. In fact, the computer pictured at the bottom of the article is an MCM/70. Interesting to consider what maybe could have been. (One reason the MCM/70 wouldn't have had BASIC is that its development predates BASIC Computer Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games , apparently the original, 1973 publication of BASIC listings. Those were all games written on and for the Dartmouth BASIC system or other DEC microcomputers. I think (I am not an expert) it was probably this corpus, and its publication in a readily-available book, that originally drew microcomputer systems like the ALTAIR towards supporting BASIC.)