The Xerox Alto: A Personal Retrospective

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A Computer History Museum talk looking back on the Xerox Alto, the 1970s personal computer from Xerox PARC that introduced the bitmapped display, mouse and windowed interface. It is a first-person account of the machine and the people who built it.

HN keeps resubmitting it as an essential first-hand look at the Alto, the machine behind the modern graphical interface.

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