• Xerox Alto Emulator https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/ 47 comments 18/8/2021
• Xerox Alto Restoration Part 5 [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Wr7vDZpniNI 13 comments 5/9/2016
• Xerox Alto Source Code http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/ 19 comments 21/10/2014
• Xerox Alto for sale on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/Xerox-Alto-Vintage-Computer-Ultra-Rare-system-complete_W0QQitemZ320602942545QQcategoryZ4193QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D4944756747746538267 30 comments 17/10/2010
• 50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto 2 comments 28/8/2024
• Electro-Migration in a Xerox Alto https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/21/xerox-alto-interesting-issue/ 8 comments 28/1/2019
• Xerox Alto Restoration – Ethernet pioneers/founders of 3Com visit [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhIohWr10kU 35 comments 9/12/2016
• Xerox Alto Restoration Part 2: Firing up the monitor [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDKxOmVDapQ 24 comments 25/6/2016
• YC's Xerox Alto restoration Part 7: disk exerciser trial [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0sL_FwPVwM 8 comments 17/9/2016
• “Hello world” in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simulator http://www.righto.com/2016/06/hello-world-in-bcpl-language-on-xerox.html 59 comments 27/6/2016
• Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html 105 comments 18/6/2016
• Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes http://www.righto.com/2017/06/improvements-to-xerox-alto-mandelbrot.html 63 comments 26/6/2017
• Restoring YC's Xerox Alto, Day 6: Fixed a chip, data read from disk http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycombinators-xerox-alto-day-6.html 31 comments 12/9/2016
• Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 3: Inside the disk drive http://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day_11.html 21 comments 11/7/2016
• Xerox Alto Restoration Part 3: drive ok and First boot attempt [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR5LkQugBE0 20 comments 5/7/2016
• Restoring YC's Xerox Alto, day 1: Power supplies and disk interface http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html 23 comments 22/6/2016
• One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto http://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-fractal-on.html 53 comments 19/6/2017

• Xerox Alto Source Code (2014) https://computerhistory.org/blog/xerox-alto-source-code/ 3 comments 31/1/2025 retrocomputing
• The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html 3 comments 22/10/2017 historical , programming
• Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system http://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-alto-zero-day-cracking-disk.html 5 comments 4/1/2018 reversing , security
• Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes http://www.righto.com/2017/06/improvements-to-xerox-alto-mandelbrot.html 3 comments 26/6/2017 hardware , historical , performance , programming

• The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html 18 comments 4/10/2018 programming
• Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/ 5 comments 22/10/2014 technology
• Xerox Alto smalltalk sources released. (Smalltalk-72, Smalltalk-76, and Smalltalk-80) http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system_archive.html/#Smalltalk 3 comments 22/10/2014 smalltalk
• Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, turns 50 this month https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/16/the_xerox_alto_50_years/ 17 comments 16/3/2023 technology
• 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto 29 comments 6/3/2023 technology
• Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xerox-alto.html 26 comments 2/7/2017 programming
• On the myth that Apple stole GUI from Xerox PARC Alto http://obamapacman.com/2010/03/myth-copyright-theft-apple-stole-gui-from-xerox-parc-alto/ 11 comments 29/8/2012 technology
• Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system http://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-alto-zero-day-cracking-disk.html 13 comments 4/1/2018 netsec
• Xerox Alto designer, co-inventor of Ethernet, dies at 74 https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/06/charles-thacker-key-designer-of-the-xerox-alto-dies-at-74/ 68 comments 17/6/2017 sysadmin
• Chuck Thacker, lead designer of the Xerox Alto – which inspired the Macintosh – dies https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/14/chuck-thacker-lead-designer-of-the-xerox-alto-which-inspired-the-macintosh-dies/ 3 comments 14/6/2017 apple
• Imagine where Apple would have been if Xerox had patented the ideas they developed for the Alto... http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bhd=1&amp%3Bt=2m58s&v=wq5D43qAsVg 6 comments 30/9/2011 technology
• Dali Clock runs on the Palm Pre - more slowly than on the Xerox Alto http://jwz.livejournal.com/1057786.html 10 comments 27/6/2009 programming
• Xerox Announces Donation of Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to SRI International | PARC researchers to continue developing pioneering technologies while Xerox focuses on core print, digital and IT services to support clients’ hybrid workplace needs https://www.news.xerox.com/news/xerox-announces-donation-of-palo-alto-research-center-parc-to-sri-international 5 comments 25/4/2023 technology
• Apple sued GEM (a popular window manager) for making its windows to overlap which Apple itself copied from Xerox Alto. GEM had to downgrade to tiling window manager resulting in their fall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/window_manager 187 comments 10/2/2019 programming
• One-hour Mandelbrot: Creating a fractal on the vintage Xerox Alto http://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-fractal-on.html 4 comments 20/6/2017 programming
• Charles Thacker, Xerox Alto designer, co-inventor of Ethernet, terminated at 74 https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/06/charles-thacker-key-designer-of-the-xerox-alto-dies-at-74/ 6 comments 13/6/2017 technology
• 1973 Xerox Alto computer that inspired Paul Allen and others is restored and running at Seattle museum http://www.geekwire.com/2016/1973-xerox-computer-inspired-paul-allen-others-restored-running-seattle-museum/ 13 comments 7/8/2016 technology
• Apple and Xerox PARC – Did Steve Jobs steal everything from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center? http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple-and-xerox-parc/ 59 comments 23/8/2014 technology
• RIP Jacob Goldman, the physicist who started Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (x-post from /technology) http://redd.it/nod3v 18 comments 23/12/2011 apple