Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Laurel Demo

[@DoomKid]

Seeing him get teary for a moment near the end really moved me. These people - the true geeks of the world - have made life so much easier for everyone since and they never get the thanks they ought to!

[@DoomKid]

“Maybe I’ll make this about 140 characters long” 😂

[@tomservo5007]

this will be the computer that will save us when SkyNet takes over.

[@irgendniemand]

Fantastic presentation!

[@hyy3657]

this is the thing that steve jobs copied?

[@intel386DX]

This machine is amazing! Xerox is very innovative company it should be the the personal computer king! Apple is peace of shit, they take ideas from xerox !

[@tomservo5007]

I know this is an old comment, but Xerox wasn't pushing this for a wide release , plus Apple added their own GUI. What you have on your desktop now would have taken maybe 5+ more years ... that's a lot of time by tech standards. You should be more mad that Douglas Engelbart isn't widly known -- what you see here, plus a lot more , was from a demo he gave many years before this. The demo is on youtube. Also, I believe Apple paid Xerox (I could be wrong).

[@googliter]

I have a intel386DX chip from the first pc that I used. I have it still I cherish it so much. I display it on my Desk at work.

[@HamburgerHelperDeath]

Xerox let Apple have access to their ideas for $100 million in stock. Xerox leadership was too stupid to realize what they had. You can’t blame Jobs for making a good deal.