- Royal McBee
Royal McBee was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of
Royal Typewriter which made the early computersRPC 4000 andRPC 9000 . Royal McBee partnered withGeneral Precision in the Royal Precision Electronic Computer Company, which sold and serviced theLGP-30 (in 1956) and LGP-21 (in 1963) single-user desk computers manufactured by the Librascope division of General Precision. Royal McBee was based inPort Chester, New York .Fact|date=June 2008The
LGP-30 is the computer on whichMel Kaye performed a legendary programming task in machine code, retold by Ed Nather in the hacker epic [http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html "The Story of Mel"] .The name "Royal McBee" is now being used by a motion picture production company in South Florida, whose members were impressed with the precision themes of that era in technology.
External links
* [http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61table01.html RPC 4000, PRC 9000 listing]
* [http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~smillie/ComputerAndMe/Part19.html LGP-30 description]
* [http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/ LGP-21 description]
* [http://www.RoyalMcBee.com Royal McBee, Inc.]
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