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- Xerox Alto Emulator https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/ 47 comments
- SALTO – The Xerox Alto Simulator http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html 10 comments
- SALTO – The Xerox Alto Simulator http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html 9 comments
- Xerox PARC – Office Alto Commercial (1979) [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zgj2p7Ww4 53 comments
- The Xerox Alto Struts Its Stuff on Its 40th Birthday https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-xerox-alto-struts-its-stuff-on-its-40th-birthday 19 comments
- Electro-Migration in a Xerox Alto https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/21/xerox-alto-interesting-issue/ 8 comments
- Live Alto demos from Xerox Parc pioneers [video] https://www.facebook.com/computerhistory/videos/10155870981835816/ 2 comments
- Fixing the Ethernet Board from a Vintage Xerox Alto http://www.righto.com/2017/11/fixing-ethernet-board-from-vintage.html 29 comments
- Xerox Alto Restoration – Ethernet pioneers/founders of 3Com visit [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhIohWr10kU 35 comments
- Xerox Alto Restoration Part 2: Firing up the monitor [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDKxOmVDapQ 24 comments
- 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto 84 comments
- 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 41 comments
- 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
- 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 64 comments
- 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
- Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 9: tracing a crash through software and hardware http://www.righto.com/2016/10/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-9-tracing.html 27 comments
- 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
- Xerox Alto Restoration Part 3: drive ok and First boot attempt [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR5LkQugBE0 20 comments
- 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
- Nov 10 CHM: Live Xerox Alto demo with original PARC development team http://www.computerhistory.org/events/upcoming/#yesterdays-computer-tomorrow-xerox-alto 18 comments
- 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
Lobsters
- The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html 3 comments historical , programming
- 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto 10 comments historical
- 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 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 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 programming
- Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/ 5 comments 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 smalltalk
- 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 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 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 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 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 apple
- Dali Clock runs on the Palm Pre - more slowly than on the Xerox Alto http://jwz.livejournal.com/1057786.html 10 comments programming
- 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 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 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 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 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 technology
- RIP Jacob Goldman, the physicist who started Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (x-post from /technology) http://redd.it/nod3v 18 comments apple