This article originally appeared on the blog of author Ken Shirriff and is reprinted here with his permission. Alan Kay recently gave his 1970s Xerox Alto to Y Combinator, and I’m helping with the ...
The Alto was a personal computer developed by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s. It was never sold commercially, but, according to former PARC employee Paul McJones ...