When Jobs saw the advanced graphics of the Alto and the Star, ... A 128KB memory card from the Xerox Alto. It uses 80 4116 memory chips, each with 16 kilobits of storage.

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.

The title says “Xerox Alto CRTs Needed a Tiny Lightbulb to Function” which I am reading it as “Back in the days, all the Alto CRTs use to have a lightbulb by design, in order for to work”.

The Alto used Ethernet to communicate with other computers (another innovation), and the restoration team made sure that worked, too — and not just so the two could talk to each other.

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The irony is that Steve Jobs could’ve caught the Alto on television. In late 1979, a 24-year-old Jobs visited Xerox PARC — the research lab where Xerox engineers had built a new-age machine ...

Xerox Alto designer, co-inventor of Ethernet, dies at 74 Every computer we use today owes a debt to the legendary and influential machine. Cyrus Farivar – Jun 13, 2017 4:51 pm ...

Charles ‘Chuck’ Thacker, lead designer of the Xerox Alto (below), has died at the age of 74, reports Communications.The Alto, launched in 1973, was the first ever computer based on a graphical ...