It was operational in 1973, long before Mac OS and Windows made GUIs popular. It was revolutionary, but sadly the management at Xerox failed to realize the potential of the work done at PARC.

Xerox designed the Alto’s user interface around the three-button mouse that sits in front of its keyboard. The disk drive at the top of the cabinet takes a removable 2.5 megabyte cartridge.

Scores of retro-loving nerds will gather this weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Xerox Alto — the genetic Eve to today's modern PCs. The sixth annual ...

Thacker was the main designer behind the Xerox Alto, the first modern PC with a graphical user interface (GUI), complete with resizable windows, a mouse-based interface, and icons representing ...

Also, Xerox gave Apple a look at the Alto in exchange for being allowed to buy 100,000 shares of pre-IPO Apple stock for a million bucks. Let's play a game of "pretend they held it till today".

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.

Xerox is donating the iconic Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California to SRI International, a non-profit scientific research institute, apparently so the company can focus on other stuff. Xerox ...

The Xerox Alto, pictured above, produced only 2,000 units. Apple, by contrast, sold 100,000 Lisa computers. The Xerox Alto, pictured above, produced only 2,000 units ...

In the real world, components don’t work like we imagine they do. Wires have resistance, resistors have inductance, and capacitors have resistance. However, some designers like to take advant… ...

Xerox is donating the iconic Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California to SRI International, a non-profit scientific research institute, apparently so the company can focus on other stuff. Xerox ...