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. In 1972, Xerox released an ...

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 ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 2, 2016 at 11:39 am August 2, 2016 at 12:59 pm ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Alto was developed the Xerox Palo ...

A sad loss. The truly visionary people seemed more common back in the early days of computing. Perhaps it was the lack of pre-existing ideas and expectations. Without the ideas incubated at PARC, I ...

Carl Clement doesn’t want to whine and moan about it. He’s just saying that before there was the Apple Macintosh and its recent and much-heralded 25th anniversary, there was the Xerox Alto. And he and ...

The Living Computers museum in Seattle has a Xerox Alto, the machine famous for being the first to sport a mouse-based windowing graphical user interface. They received it in working condition and put ...

As Xerox’s former chief scientist, Jacob E. Goldman created the company’s famed Palo Alto Research Center, whose scientists and engineers invented the modern personal computer in the 1970s and ...

Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) announced the donation of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to SRI International, a nonprofit research institute behind some of the world’s most impactful ...

Jacob E. Goldman, the former Xerox chief scientist who created the company’s famed Palo Alto Research Center, whose scientists and engineers invented the modern personal computer in the 1970s and ...