https://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html?showComment=1470273116786
A few days ago, I wrote about how I'm helping restore a Xerox Alto for Y Combinator. This new post describes the first day of restoration...
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https://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xerox-alto.html?showComment=1523125091809
I've been restoring a Xerox Alto minicomputer from the 1970s and figured it would be interesting to see if it could mine bitcoins. I coded u...
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https://www.righto.com/2017/10/inside-vintage-xerox-altos-display-tiny.html
In this Alto restoration episode, we repaired a second CRT display, exercising our TV repair skills and discovering a tiny mysterious lightb...
xerox altoinsidevintagedisplaytiny
https://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html?showComment=1466273666838&m=0
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
xerox altocombinatorrestoringlegendarygui
https://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html?showComment=1467865202807&m=0
This post describes how we repaired the monitor from a Xerox Alto. The Alto was a revolutionary computer, designed in 1973 at Xerox PARC ...
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https://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html?showComment=1467493077860&m=0
This post describes how we repaired the monitor from a Xerox Alto. The Alto was a revolutionary computer, designed in 1973 at Xerox PARC ...
xerox altorestoringcombinatordayrepairing
https://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-contralto.html?m=1
The revolutionary Xerox Alto computer came out in 1973 and set the direction for personal computing. If you want to try out the Alto's so...
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https://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-altos-3-mbs-ethernet-building.html?showComment=1516692925557
The Alto was a revolutionary computer designed at Xerox PARC in 1973. It introduced the GUI, high-resolution bitmapped displays, the optic...
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https://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-fractal-on.html?showComment=1498163939304
I wrote a short program to generate the Mandelbrot set on the Xerox Alto, a groundbreaking minicomputer from the 1970s. The program, in...
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https://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html?showComment=1466274995336
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
xerox altocombinatorrestoringlegendarygui
https://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-8-it-boots.html?m=0
We've been restoring a Xerox Alto from the 1970s for several months, and we finally got it to boot and run some programs! There's still so...
xerox altorestoringvintagedayboots
https://www.righto.com/2016/10/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-9-tracing.html?m=0
Last week, after months of restoration, we finally got the vintage Xerox Alto computer to boot ( details ) and run programs. However, so...
xerox altorestoringycdaytracing
https://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html?showComment=1466339134097
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
xerox altocombinatorrestoringlegendarygui
https://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-steve-jobs-and-computer.html?showComment=1595730351934
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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https://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html?showComment=1466285821283&m=0
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
xerox altocombinatorrestoringlegendarygui
https://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html?showComment=1466654400595&m=0
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
xerox altocombinatorrestoringlegendarygui
https://www.righto.com/2016/09/xerox-alto-restoration-day-5-smoke-and.html?showComment=1676217189151&m=0
In today's Xerox Alto restoration session we investigated why the system doesn't boot. We find a broken wire, hook up a logic analyzer, gene...
xerox altorestoringycombinatordaymicrocode
https://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html?showComment=1466286355030
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
xerox altocombinatorrestoringlegendarygui