abstractpavlin: “ Xerox Alto ”

A mental coredump of vintage computers, electronic projects, space history, & historical telephony.

Andrew's Apricot Point 7 "dates from around 1984 / 85, is a rebadged version of the Apricot Xi, and was purchased as a file server - it's a machine I saved from the scrap." "From memory, it used an external multiple serial adaptor to which the workstations were connected via their serial ports." "The screen shows the Activity GUI which succeeded Manager and was followed by GEM Desktop." "It was faster than a PC, had better graphics, the fancy Microscreen programmable key pad, soft fonts…

Get a closer look at the people and products from Palo Alto Research Center's storied 40-year history.

Holborn was a small Dutch company which made computers in the early eighties.

ACT was a leading European computer manufacturer that started in 1965 with a computer time-share service. It sold the Victor 9000 in Europe as the ACT Sirius starting in 1982, but did not build its…

“The situation was similar in the case of this “human-engineered” HP 250 – this terminal might not have had that many characters, but at least had so much *character*!”