This article originally appeared on the blog of author Ken Shirriff and is reprinted here with his permission. Alan Kay recently gave his 1970s Xerox Alto to Y Combinator, and I’m helping with the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Charles ‘Chuck’ Thacker, lead designer of the Xerox Alto (below), has died at the age of 74, reports Communications. The Alto, launched in 1973, was the first ever computer based on a graphical user ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Charles P. Thacker, a pioneering engineer in the early days of personal computing, died this week at ...

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