Mers Kutt -- the Canadian who invented the microcomputer

"On Sept. 25, 1973, Kutt and his team from Micro Computer Machines, of Toronto, demonstrated a desktop computer powered by Intel's 8008 microprocessor. The 20-pound machine came equipped with a keyboard, plasma screen, cassette drives and a virtual memory function that boosted its operating memory up to 102 kilobytes. It was introduced a year before the MITS Altair 8800, a more famous PC milepost. And it was user-friendly," reports the Mercury News.