The Xerox Alto was a minicomputer that had a lot of firsts to its name: first GUI, first Ethernet connection, and first computer to use a laser printer. This is the computer that inspired Steve ...

Charles Thacker, who built the first personal computer while a member of the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC), passed away on Monday. He died at home from complications of ...

Undeterred by the management’s indifference, by March 1973, the PARC team had invented their path-breaking Xerox Alto. The machine incorporated a mouse and GUI a decade before mass-market GUI ...