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Xerox's Alto computer Yet Xerox missed out on the pot of gold it discovered. "Xerox's entire being was geared toward building and exploiting the copier," said Hiltzik.
Y Combinator’s Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer Steve Jobs famously saw one and was inspired to create the Lisa, then the Mac.
The Alto was a personal computer developed by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s.
Xerox Alto designer, co-inventor of Ethernet, dies at 74 Every computer we use today owes a debt to the legendary and influential machine.
Charles "Chuck" Thacker led the development of the first personal computer at the famed Xerox PARC organization in the 1970s, and co-developed other now-common technologies as Ethernet and the ...
In 1972, Xerox released an advert for the Alto, introducing people to the world’s first computer with a graphical user interface, mouse, and distinctive portrait screen.
Why not? "Robert Metcalfe, researcher at PARC, invented Ethernet as a way to connect Xerox printers and the Alto computer," Xerox spokesman Bill McKee said on Monday.
A resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, Thacker is credited with designing the first modern personal computer, the Xerox Alto, and was co-inventor of the Ethernet.
The story of the role of Xerox`s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the development of the Apple Macintosh computer is a familiar one in the business world that has been widely discussed in ...
A restored Xerox Alto at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. (Via Living Computer Museum) A decades-old machine that inspired Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others on the path to ...