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Fixing the Ethernet board from a vintage Xerox Alto
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A Xerox Alto system on the East coast had Ethernet problems, so the owner sent me the Ethernet board to diagnose. (After restoring our Alto,...
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Identifying the "Early IBM Computer" in a Twitter photo: a 405 Accounting Machine
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The photo below of a "woman wiring an early IBM computer" has appeared on Twitter a bunch of times , and it stoked my curiosity:...
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Steve Jobs, the Xerox Alto, and computer typography
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Steve Jobs gave an inspirational commencement address at Stanford in 2005. He described how his decision to drop out of college unexpectedl...
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The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI
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Be sure to read the comment from Alan Kay at the bottom of the article! We succeeded in running the Smalltalk-76 language on our vintag...
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Inside the vintage Xerox Alto's display, a tiny lightbulb keeps it working
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In this Alto restoration episode, we repaired a second CRT display, exercising our TV repair skills and discovering a tiny mysterious lightb...
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