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Birthday cake cutting ceremony

On Oct 11, 2003 we celebrated the 30th birthday of the Xerox Alto computer system as part of the Vintage Computer Festival held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. A special panel was held followed by this birthday cake cutting ceremony.
Thanks to DigiBarn videomaker Allan Lundell and his partner Sun McNamee and yours truly DigiBarn curator Bruce Damer, we have great video and audio of this historic event. We also have a great set of images of the ceremony below.

Video and Audio of the ceremony

Click here for Video and Audio of the ceremony!

Images of the ceremony

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The Cake!
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Alto with cake
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Sellam of the Vintage Computer Festival
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Panelist John Ellenby (right)
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Studying Alto (or Dolphin) hardware
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Detail of cake with ink-jetted raster
image of the Xerox Alto
(how appropriate!)
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Bill English joins us for the cake cutting
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All hands to the ceremony
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Charles Simonyi does the honors
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John Toole of the Computer History
Museum helping dish it out


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See also the Alto 30th anniversary panel held during this event

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