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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 ...

Xerox Alto source code The Alto was a personal computer developed by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the early 1970s. It was never sold commercially, but, according to former PARC ...

One of the great pioneers of the computer age, credited with designing the first personal computer, has died at the age of 74. Charles Thacker, who built the first personal computer while a member of ...

Charles Thacker, one of the lead hardware designers on the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, died of a brief illness on Monday. He was 74. The Alto, which was released in 1973 but was ...

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Before Microsoft and Apple helped put a computer on every desktop, there had to be a personal computer that people would want to own in the first place. That’s where Charles Thacker came in more than ...

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 dawn of the White House’s digital age began with President Jimmy Carter, according to a post on The White House Historical Association's Facebook page. In 1978, President Carter oversaw the ...

Before you could Google a fact, you could Xerox a document. In 1959, Xerox debuted the first photocopier, a product that would become ubiquitous in offices around the world. Other WRAL Top Stories ...

Today is a very special day for a very special computer. This is the computer that started it all, the device that changed everything, the very thing that kicked off the era of the personal computer.