A sad loss. The truly visionary people seemed more common back in the early days of computing. Perhaps it was the lack of pre-existing ideas and expectations. Without the ideas incubated at PARC, I ...

Anyone interested in the history of personal computing will surely have heard of the Xerox Alto, but when’s the last time you got to play with one? It’s been a while even for Paul Allen — long enough ...

The irony is that Steve Jobs could’ve caught the Alto on television. In late 1979, a 24-year-old Jobs visited Xerox PARC — the research lab where Xerox engineers had built a new-age machine called the ...

The Living Computers museum in Seattle has a Xerox Alto, the machine famous for being the first to sport a mouse-based windowing graphical user interface. They received it in working condition and put ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 2, 2016 at 11:39 am August 2, 2016 at 12:59 pm ...

As Xerox’s former chief scientist, Jacob E. Goldman created the company’s famed Palo Alto Research Center, whose scientists and engineers invented the modern personal computer in the 1970s and ...

It displays intuitive operation by displaying graphics on the screen and operating with the mouseGraphical user interfaceWith the realization of the GUI (GUI), it is said that until then the computers ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Alto was developed the Xerox Palo ...

NORWALK, Conn., & PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) announced today the donation of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to SRI International, a nonprofit ...

In the real world, components don’t work like we imagine they do. Wires have resistance, resistors have inductance, and capacitors have resistance. However, some designers like to take advantage of ...

Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) announced the donation of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to SRI International, a nonprofit research institute behind some of the world’s most impactful ...