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

[CuriousMarc]

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
 
 

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