Join Steve as he tells us about the Xerox Alto — a groundbreaking innovation that paved the way for modern technology. #Xerox #XeroxAlto #XeroxPark #Technology | Computer History Museum

The year is 1979. 🪩 Xerox unveils the future of offices with the 72 dots-per-inch (dpi) Alto. It includes Ethernet, full-page display, a mouse, laser printing, e-mail, and a windows UI. Though its price was steep, it paved the way for giants like Apple Macintosh & Microsoft Windows. 📸 Imagery credits: Xerox #TechThrowback #XeroxAlto #RetroTech | Computer History Museum

Developed in the 1970s by Xerox PARC's Learning Research Group, Smalltalk pioneered overlapping windows, pop-up menus, and paned browsers, all controlled by a mouse. Smalltalk was also one of the earliest object-oriented programming languages, whose graphical interface inspired Steve Jobs and influenced the Lisa and Macintosh computers. 🖥 In this demonstration, recorded in 2017 on a Xerox Alto, Dan Ingalls, Smalltalk’s lead programmer, recreates the famous demos of Smalltalk that were given to