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

[Adrian Graham]

Excellent! Never having seen an alto 'for reals' never mind watch one boot
this is fascinating!

A


On 27/09/2016 07:07, "curiousmarc3 at gmail.com" <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 6:12 PM, CuriousMarc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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 yesterday¹s 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
>>  
>> Ken¹s 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
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>>  
>> 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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