Xerox Alto Central Processing Unit
Object Details
- Date made
- 1973
- maker
- Xerox Corporation
- Description
- The Alto was developed the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. It was designed to be a networked operating system with a cutting-edge graphics display. The Alto consisted of the processor and storage unit, the display, keyboard, and mouse. Although the Alto and its successor, the Star, were not major commercial successes, their technologies were crucial to the development of personal computers and widely adapted for use by the industry.
- Object 1989.0432.01.1 is the large processor and disk storage unit; 1989.0432.01.2 the monitor and keyboard, and 1986.0432.01.3 a disk of games played on the ALTO.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- place made
- United States: California, Palo Alto
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Credit Line
- Xerox Corporation, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1989.0432.01.1
- catalog number
- 1989.0432.01.1
- accession number
- 1989.0432
- Object Name
- Microcomputer
- processor, computer, xerox alto microcomputer
- Measurements
- overall: 22 1/2 in x 27 3/4 in x 28 in; 57.15 cm x 70.485 cm x 71.12 cm
- overall: 57 in x 39 in x 43 in; 144.78 cm x 99.06 cm x 109.22 cm
- Record ID
- nmah_334631