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
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.
Steve Jobs
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Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner S
Xerox Alto
…production was about 2,000 systems. The Alto became well known in Silicon Valley and its GUI was increasingly seen as the future of computing. In 1979, Steve Jobs arranged a visit to Xerox PARC, during which Apple Computer personnel received demonstrations of Xerox technology in exchange for Xerox being able to…
Jobs in 2010
The childhood family home of Steve Jobs on Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, is the original site of Apple Computer. The home was added to a list of historic Los Altos sites in 2013.
Jobs' Homestead High School yearbook photo, 1972
A Macintosh prototype, c. 1981