Steve Jobs famously saw one and was inspired to create the Lisa, then the Mac. Read the whole story ...

The Living Computers museum in Seattle has a Xerox Alto, the machine famous for being the first to sport a mouse-based windowing graphical user interface. They received it in working condition and ...

The Alto computer came with with icons, windows, folders, a mouse, pop-up menus, ... who wrote some of the core Macintosh system software, worked at Xerox PARC as a teenager and through college.

The Xerox Alto computer was developed there and came out three years after PARC began. For the next 10 years, hardware evolved and software was built on it. Ten years later, the Xerox Star came ...

The Living Computers museum in Seattle has a Xerox Alto, the machine famous for being the first to sport a mouse-based windowing graphical user interface. They received it in working condition and … ...

The Xerox Corp., which only days ago was fending off rumors of its impending bankruptcy, is talking to venture capitalists about selling its Palo Alto Research Center, which in the 1970s pioneered ...

Mr. Thacker, who helped usher in the modern personal computer as the designer of the Xerox Alto computer, died at his Palo Alto, California, home last week. He was 74.

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.