The Xerox Alto History

A história do projeto do primeiro computador para uso pessoal. Inventado pela XEROX, não teve muito respaldo na época e acabou tendo seu projeto abandonado.

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• XEROX
• Steve
• Jobs
• Alto
• History
• Computador

[tsuyoshi1978]

it's a precious video for computer's history!

[pairostrike]

so in other words xerox royally fucked up!

[goochbuntu]

5:40 i dont know there are some computers that are built to be servers and will never have a graphical interface at all. im just thankful for xerox for making computers what they are today

[NasherDezno]

@pairostrike Thats putting it very mild

[Goldspar1]

Mac osx is candyland.

[pacificoceanside]

@LALOMAN18 Well, actually they both profited from it. Xerox agreed to give Jobs and Apple computer the rights to the Alto and its software in exchange for 40,000 shares of stock in Apple computer. As a result the both made millions on a trade.

[LALOMAN18]

As we saw here, Jobs demanded and he got it, today he is still the same shit.. he demands to steal others dreams! lol.... sneaky bastard.

[Xerox6085I]

@Xerox6085I By the way this is how the term was coined WYSIWYG "What You See Is What You Get". I have a Xerox 6085 Model 1 which replaced the 8010 in 1985 running Xerox Windows View Point 2.0. The Model 2 6085 was 60% percent faster. a system that ran a 2.2bit virtual memory system. It's sad as I worked on a project in XBSU El Segundo as software tester. It was was the first time I felt as if what I was doing was important and great.

[Xerox6085I]

@azcactus2008 The idea of your own personal computer was just unheard of at the time. If you can find a copy of it, pick up "Fumbling The Future -- How Xerox Invented then ignored the First Personal Computer" by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander . I just found it on Amazon

[Xerox6085I]

At the time, the idea of personal computing was a outrageous idea when time sharing on mainframes was still considered the acceptable thing. At the time Xerox was in the "time sharing" computer business, selling slices of CPU and I/O time on a main frame.