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

Curious Marc curiousmarc3 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 04:00:30 CDT 2016


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:
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> 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
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> 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
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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
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> Marc
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> 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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