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.
Xerox Star
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The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that have since become standard in personal compu
Xerox Alto
…the Alto, Apple engineers used the concepts in developing the Lisa and Macintosh systems. In 1981, Xerox commercialized a line of office computers, the Star, based on concepts from the Alto. A complete office system including several workstations, storage, and a laser printer cost up to $100,000 (equivalent…
Xerox Star 8010
Compound document and desktop of 8010/40 system
Windowed interface with scrollbars and greyscale graphics
Evolution of the used document icon shape