Xerox Alto Computer 1974

This is a demostration of the Xerox Alto computer in 1974. The Alto, introduced in 1973, but never commercially produced, was perhaps the most innovative design in computer history: it had a mouse, a GUI, an object-oriented OS and development tools, and fast networking with the first ethernet cards. These are features that wouldn’t be common until 10 years later, and even 20 years later some of them were still cutting edge.
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