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On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: 1973 ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto ?The *Xerox Alto* was one of the first personal computers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer> (a term that was already coined at the time), a general purpose computer designed for individual use (although not as a home computer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer>). However it was expensive and, unlike modern personal computers, not based on a microprocessor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor>. It was developed at Xerox PARC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)> and released on March 1, 1973.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto#cite_note-1> It was the first computer to use a desktop metaphor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor>,[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto#cite_note-2>[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto#cite_note-3> first commercialized on the laterXerox Star <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star>, and one of the first with a mouse-driven graphical user interface <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface> (GUI) after Douglas Engelbart <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart>'s oN-Line System <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ON-Line_System> (NLS)[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto#cite_note-4>[5] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto#cite_note-Mother_of_all_Demos-5> and several other innovations in user interfaces of the time.[6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto#cite_note-mackido-6>