A restored Xerox Alto at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. (Via Living Computer Museum) A decades-old machine that inspired Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others on the path to ...

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 ...

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.

Charles "Chuck" Thacker led the development of the first personal computer at the famed Xerox PARC organization in the 1970s, and co-developed other now-common technologies as Ethernet and the ...

In 1973, PARC researchers built Xerox Alto, the world's first personal computer with a mouse connected to a graphical interface screen. The lab invented Ethernet cables too.

Xerox Alto designer, co-inventor of Ethernet, dies at 74 Every computer we use today owes a debt to the legendary and influential machine.

Xerox Alto source code The Alto was a personal computer developed by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s.

Obituary: Charles Thacker, who helped usher in the modern personal computer as the designer of the Xerox Alto computer and worked at Microsoft Research for 20 years, died at his Palo Alto ...

Steve Jobs famously saw one and was inspired to create the Lisa, then the Mac. Read the whole story ...