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Xerox Alto 30th Anniversary Panel at the VCF
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Speakers: John Ellenby, Charles Simonyi, L. Peter Deutsch, Dave Robson
Moderated by:
Bruce Damer, Curator, DigiBarn Computer Museum
Hosted by:
Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum
Time held:
Saturday October 11th, 2003, 2-4pm

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. This special panel was held followed by a 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 panel below.

Video and Audio of the panel

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Images of the panel

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Panel opens with a revisiting of
Butler Lampson's December 1972 memo
"Why Alto?"
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Panel moderator Bruce Damer
on Why celebrate the Alto
30th birthday
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Dave Boggs' ethernet drop from PARC
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Charles grabs the drop to make a point
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John with the drop
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L Peter Deutsch and Charles Simonyi
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Showing the Alto keyset
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Alto disk: BravoX 4.5 (ref Charles)
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John Ellenby begins the panel proper
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See Also:

Back to Vintage Computer Festival 6/Xerox Alto 30th Birthday Bash

See also: Butler Lampson's 1972 memo "Why Alto?"

See also: our pages on the DigiBarn Alto II/XM


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