Adele J. Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was a co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80, an early object-oriented programming language that influenced the design of langua
Dr. Adele Goldberg at Python Conference (PyCon) 2007
Xerox Alto
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The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or personal computers, and its development pioneered many aspects of modern com
Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)
…which she at first refused to give him, although her superiors eventually compelled her to comply. Apple eventually took many of the ideas used in the Xerox Alto and their implementations and used them as the basis for their Apple Macintosh desktop environment. Between 1984 through 1986, Adele was President of…
Xerox Alto – exhibited at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn.
The top three buttons
The underside has three rolling balls.
The Alto keyset is a chorded keyboard that never became popular.