Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines

Adrian Stoness tdk.knight at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 13:13:30 CST 2016


saw it earlyer :D

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Curious Marc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Session 11 video:
> https://youtu.be/OKakermaQ68
>
> > On Oct 13, 2016, at 12:10 AM, Curious Marc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Session 9 here gets us into microcode RAM trouble:
> > https://youtu.be/VWQ7hbV7bN0
> > Ken’s corresponding blog article
> > http://www.righto.com/2016/10/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-
> 9-tracing.html
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > And it finally boots on session 8!
> > https://youtu.be/9OQMhvArI9g
> >
> > > On Sep 10, 2016, at 7:46 PM, CuriousMarc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Video of session 6 is up:
> > > https://youtu.be/b7yVhMT7tr4
> > > Found our first bad IC. Probably not our last one.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9/3/16 11:08 PM, curiousmarc3 at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Episode 5, still does not boot, but we are starting to follow long
> > > why: https://youtu.be/Wr7vDZpniNIr
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jul 31, 2016, at 6:12 PM, CuriousMarc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > Next Episode:
> > > https://youtu.be/EDw8U1a6s78
> > > http://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-
> alto-day_31.html
> > > Marc
> > >
> > > From: Curious Marc [mailto:curiousmarc3 at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 2:01 AM
> > > To: Curious Marc; cctalk at classiccmp.org
> > > Subject: Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto
> > > machines
> > > Ken's in-depth blog post to go with the previous video
> > > http://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-
> alto-day_11.html
> > >
> > > On Jul 5, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Curious Marc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > Video from yesterday’s work on the Diablo cartridge disc:
> > > https://youtu.be/PR5LkQugBE0
> > > Should be up in a few minutes.
> > > We were tickled pink to have official representation from PARC
> > > (former Xerox Parc) at the session. Marc
> > >
> > > Ken’s new post on the monitor repair to go with my previous video.
> > > http://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-
> alto-day.html
> > > Al Kossow got us a new CRT tube, so we are probably going to try
> > > that this week-end. Marc
> > >
> > >
> > > Latest entry from Ken Shirriff, trying out BCPL (ancestor of C). On
> > > the emulator, not yet on the real machine:
> > > http://www.righto.com/2016/06/hello-world-in-bcpl-language-
> on-xerox.html
> > > Marc
> > >
> > > There are only two entries right now:
> > > http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html
> > > http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-
> alto-day.html
> > > Marc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 73      AF6WS
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> >
> > "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
> >
>


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