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

[Curious Marc]

Session 12
https://youtu.be/XhIohWr10kU
We were happy and humbled to get a friendly visit from David Boggs (Alto engineer, co-inventor of Ethernet) and Ron Crane (also ex-Xerox, co-founder of 3Com with Bob Metcalfe, and CHM restoration team colleague).



> On Nov 23, 2016, at 1:37 PM, Curious Marc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Session 11 video:
> https://youtu.be/OKakermaQ68
> 
>> On Oct 13, 2016, at 12:10 AM, Curious Marc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> And it finally boots on session 8!
>> https://youtu.be/9OQMhvArI9g
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>> > On Sep 10, 2016, at 7:46 PM, CuriousMarc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> > 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
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>> > 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
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