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

curiousmarc3 at gmail.com curiousmarc3 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 01:08:26 CDT 2016


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 <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
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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
>  
> 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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