[vcf-midatlantic] 15 videos: Xerox Alto Restoration

[Jeffrey Jonas]

of possible interest:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb58I3ZV67LW3S_JEMFnDrQDj&spfreload=5

Xerox Alto Restoration
CuriousMarc

This video series chronicles the restoration of a seminal Xerox Alto
computer. This is the machine that Steve Jobs saw during a visit at
the famed Xerox PARC, and would inspire the Macintosh. Although never
commercialized, this 1974 design, built entirely out of simple TTL
logic before a powerful enough microprocessor even existed, was so far
ahead of its time that it is hard to comprehend. It demonstrated many
then unheard-of firsts, and astonishingly, they all made it to the
present day computer, barely modified: a personal computer booting
from a hard disk, with a graphical screen, proportional fonts, a mouse
driven GUI, a WYSIWYG text editor, a drawing program, IDE with
overlapping windows, Ethernet, Net booting, laser printing, the first
optical mouse - and even network games. Follow along as we delve into
the depth of this machine while bringing it back to life step by step,
while being constantly amazed at its never ending cleverness.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhIohWr10kU&list=PL-_93BVApb58I3ZV67LW3S_JEMFnDrQDj

Xerox Alto Restoration Part 12 - Ethernet pioneers

We bring up the Ethernet card and optical mouse,
and are visited by Xerox Ethernet inventors and pioneer designers
Dave Boggs and Ron Crane.