Ken Shirriff
@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space
Computer history. Reverse-engineering old chips. Restored Apollo Guidance Computer, Xerox Alto. Ex-Google, Sun, Msft. So-called boffin.
oldbytes.space
Ken Shirriff
@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space
Computer history. Reverse-engineering old chips. Restored Apollo Guidance Computer, Xerox Alto. Ex-Google, Sun, Msft. So-called boffin.
oldbytes.space
@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space
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Mar 23, 2025
In the 1970s, some members of Engelbart's team moved to Xerox PARC. They put his concepts into the Xerox Alto, giving it a keyset, mouse, and graphical user interface. Steve Jobs toured PARC, taking the mouse and GUI ideas for the Apple Lisa and the Macintosh. But he left the keyset behind.
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