This article originally appeared on the blog of author Ken Shirriff and is reprinted here with his permission. Alan Kay recently gave his 1970s Xerox Alto to Y Combinator, and I'm helping with the ...

Xerox engineered the Alto in 1972 more as ... To communicate with a computer, a programmer needed to be proficient in the specific language of that system. Each input was typed and had to be ...

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Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Bob Taylor, who ran PARC’s Computer Science Laboratory that had helped develop the Alto system, was pleased to have a chance to show Xerox ...

Meanwhile, in newly nicknamed Silicon Valley, four computer scientists at Xerox's Palo ... Microsoft's Windows operating system, that eventually brought the features of the 1973 Alto to hundreds ...

PARC creates the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer. The Alto features the first graphical user interface, making it possible to control the system by pointing and clicking on menus ...

The Living Computers museum in Seattle has a Xerox Alto ... But in the case of the Alto, an under-specified power distribution system caused a lot of current to flow through too few solder ...

These architectures required hardware with programmable microcode, which required either custom hardware, or computer systems like the Xerox Alto-inspired ICL PERQ (pictured). What’s interesting ...

The device had just one button, located in the top corner. Originally designed to work with the Xerox Alto computer system, it was officially called the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System." ...