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- Xerox Alto Emulator https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/ 47 comments
- Xerox Alto Restoration Part 5 [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Wr7vDZpniNI 13 comments
- SALTO – The Xerox Alto Simulator http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html 9 comments
- Xerox Alto Source Code http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/ 19 comments
- 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
- Xerox PARC – Office Alto Commercial (1979) [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zgj2p7Ww4 53 comments
- 50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto 2 comments
- Electro-Migration in a Xerox Alto https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/21/xerox-alto-interesting-issue/ 8 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
- YC's Xerox Alto restoration Part 7: disk exerciser trial [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0sL_FwPVwM 8 comments
- “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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Xerox Alto Source Code (2014) https://computerhistory.org/blog/xerox-alto-source-code/ 3 comments 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 historical , programming
- 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
- Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, turns 50 this month https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/16/the_xerox_alto_50_years/ 17 comments technology
- 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto 29 comments 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 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
- 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&%3Bt=2m58s&v=wq5D43qAsVg 6 comments technology
- Dali Clock runs on the Palm Pre - more slowly than on the Xerox Alto http://jwz.livejournal.com/1057786.html 10 comments 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 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 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