This I find very cool...esp since I scored an Xerox Alto Users handbook (thanks Bob!) at VCF/East. Has anyone every heard of these guys.they seem to up in Canada and are painstakingly restoring an Xerox Alto I since April 2003. AINOTL begins restoration of Xerox Alto 1 April 2003 AINOTL Systems, Inc. (AINOTL) is pleased to announce the restoration of a Xerox Alto 1 computer (1972). Only 200 were hand-made at the Xerox PARC research facility - we have the only one known to exist. The Alto featured the world's first What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editor, a commercial mouse for input, a graphical user interface (GUI), and bit-mapped display, and offered menus and icons, linked to a local area networks (first Ethernet device), implemented electronic mail, and stored files simultaneously. The webpage goes into great details of how they are restoring the hardware along with a lot of pictures. http://www.ainotl.com/alto.html All this Alto fascination has got me wondering if anyone is working on Alto emulation.If not I'd be interesting in starting this dauting task, but don't think I know where to start. Do binaries of the ROM/OS/Applications exist? I'm sure Al Kossow must have Alto hardware docs. Are there any roadblocks in trying to build an Alto Emulator (I've always wondered why an Alto Emulator doesn't exists yet.but I ask the same of my 2nd favorite machine - the Apple Lisa). Anyone else interested in undertaking this task? -Chandra