Xerox Alto

Ken Shirriff goes through a quick demo of this mind-blowing machine from the 1970s. You can already see all the concepts that would turn into our modern computing experience from 15 years later, as first exemplified in the Apple Lisa, democratized by the Apple Macintosh, and finally pervasive under Windows. But it all comes from this brilliant machine, far, far ahead of its time.

The complete saga of our very broken Xerox Alto restoration