Alto

Brian Reid 18 h � I'm unpacking ancient boxes and organizing what I can. Does anybody think they want this and deserve to have it?
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Comments Jeff Osborn Wow! That�s a museum piece, don�t you think? 18 h Reply Brian Reid Jeff Osborn I'm sure that every museum that knows what an Alto is already has one. Mine is in pretty good shape, though. 18 h Reply Jeff Osborn Brian Reid It looks great. Are there any Altos out there in the wild running? 18 h Reply Brian Reid Jeff Osborn There is probably an app for the Apple Watch that emulates an Alto. 18 h Reply Jeff Osborn Brian Reid That�s hilarious and I don�t want to know if it isn�t true. 18 h Reply Martin Haeberli Brian Reid there�s definitely apps or the like for Macs and as i recall linux, maybe PCs, that are Alto emulators 11 h Reply Witold Kręcicki There's a web emulator too https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/ ARCHIVES.LOOMCOM.COM Xerox Alto Emulator Xerox Alto Emulator 11 h Reply Vincent M Brannigan Brian Reid My best computer museum story . I took Ruth to Bletchly Park see the codebreaking and British Computer museums. Codebreaking was open but the Computer Museum was closed for lack of staff. I said to the director of the code breaking museum� See more Dr. Ruth Dayhoff - Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine SIIM.ORG Dr. Ruth Dayhoff - Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine Dr. Ruth Dayhoff - Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine 49 m Reply Edited Vincent M Brannigan for the record Brian was best man at our wedding 1975 May be a black-and-white image of 2 people and suit 48 m Reply Edited Maurice Bizzarri Ask the computer history museum if they want it. 18 h Reply Brian Reid Maurice Bizzarri They are not accepting donations right now because their database is too scrambled to be usable. 18 h Reply Maurice Bizzarri Brian Reid wow that sounds grim. Hope they fix it completely not just a patch job. 18 h Reply Richard Man Do you have an alto? You would be the second person I know that had one 18 h Reply Brian Reid Richard Man One of the many skills that I learned from the late David Boggs was how and when to get rid of obsolete technology. I don't even have USB-A, let alone an Alto. But this is a book, and the notion of getting rid of obsolete books is more complex. Somewhere in the room I'm trying to clean up is a "Programming the IBM 7094" book. It needs to go. 18 h Reply Richard Man Brian Reid definitely. Books go, unless it's my LISP 1.5 original manual, ha ha 17 h Reply Laura Evans Miskiv Brian Reid this made me laugh and remember when David got so frustrated that we couldn�t get rid of obsolete computer boards due to the write off cost that he filled my office with them! I wasn�t laughing at the time but funny to think about now. 17 h Reply Dave Heller Brian Reid, I am sure that I still have the "IBM 7094 Principles of Operation" somewhere. 15 h Reply Richard Man The guy that I bought my first Leica lens from had an alto in his house in Palo Alto 18 h Reply Jim Rutt cc Bruce Damer 18 h Reply Bruce Damer Jim Rutt I had one too! 12 h Reply Bruce Damer Jim Rutt May be an image of 1 person 11 h Reply Bruce Damer My alto at home! Showing a scanned image of Dave Boggs, co inventor of the Ethernet 11 h Reply Dan Mahoney The copy of this that's up on internet archive is three years newer than this. I feel like regardless of what happens here, this should get scanned and saved for posterity. If you don't feel sure that can happen, I will. 18 h Reply Brian Reid Dan Mahoney I'll scan it and upload it. 17 h Reply Darin McGrew I remember playing Maze War on the Xerox Altos at Stanford when I was in school. But I have no use for an Alto user handbook... 17 h Reply Ken Iisaka Cool. There was a time I programmed in Smalltalk� 17 h Reply Ethan Bradford I loved those at Stanford, though as for Darin McGrew, my biggest accomplishment was gaming (I got very good at Asteroids). 16 h Reply Chris Kantarjiev I gave mine to the Computer Museum. 16 h Reply Alan Clegg So, how often did people run around the building yelling "Palo" to which others would respond "Alto"? 16 h Reply David R. Jefferson Maybe give it to the Computer History Museum? 12 h Reply David R. Jefferson Have you scanned it? 12 h Reply Dennis Allison Computer Museum, Stanford Library, UC Berkeley Library
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