On Monday 14 August 2006 18:29, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Monday 14 August 2006 6:16 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > It always strikes me as so unfair to the folks at PARC that > > these "non-technical [1] history" columns never seem to include the > > people who actually designed the first GUI. Note the date - 1973 > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_(computer) > > And they got it wrong on TV One last night. > > Apparently IBM celebrated 25 years since the first personal computer this > week. (1981) > > Xerox beat them by almost 10 years. Not really, the Alto cost US$32,000 ( 1979 money ). The processor + disk drive cabinet was the size of a small 'fridge. You'd have to be a pretty rich person to have such a thing personally. I don't think they sold many commercially.
http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/alto.html -- CS
