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Xerox Alto Source Code (2014)
Depending on your age, your first computer might have been an Apple II, a Radio Shack TRS-80, an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or another of the early personal computers. If you missed these early machines the first time around, perhaps you have seen them in the Personal Computer section of the Revolution exhibit at the Computer History Museum.
A 1972 Rolling Stone magazine article by Stewart Brand, with photos by Annie Leibovitz, provided an early look at the computer research scene at PARC, the Stanford AI Lab, and other Bay Area locations. It had a full-page graphics display with 606 by 808 black & white pixels, a keyboard, a mouse, a fairly powerful processor with 128 KBytes of main memory, a hard drive with a 2.5 MByte removable cartridge, and a 2.94 Mbit/sec Ethernet interface. That fall day I had my first taste of the world that we now take for granted: the ability to create and modify digital documents containing text and graphics, store them, and transmit them “at blinding electronic speed”.
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