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 ...

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Anyone interested in the history of personal computing will surely have heard of the Xerox Alto, but when’s the last time you got to play with one? It’s been a while even for Paul Allen — long enough ...

Charles Thacker, one of the lead hardware designers on the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, died of a brief illness on Monday. He was 74. The Alto, which was released in 1973 but was ...

Xerox Alto source code 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 ...

One of the great pioneers of the computer age, credited with designing the first personal computer, has died at the age of 74. Charles Thacker, who built the first personal computer while a member of ...

Early computers were not only mammoth machines, they weren't very user-friendly. This month's history of cybersecurity examines how the relationship between Man and Machine was reimagined, starting ...

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 user ...