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A 1970s disk drive that wouldn't seek: getting our Xerox Alto running again
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Our vintage Xerox Alto has been running reliably for months, but a couple weeks ago the disk drive malfunctioned and the heads stopped movin...
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Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a gateway with a BeagleBone
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The Alto was a revolutionary computer designed at Xerox PARC in 1973. It introduced the GUI, high-resolution bitmapped displays, the optic...
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Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system
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We've been archiving a bunch of old Xerox Alto disk packs from the 1970s. A few of them turned out to be password-protected, so I nee...
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Fixing the Ethernet board from a vintage Xerox Alto
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A Xerox Alto system on the East coast had Ethernet problems, so the owner sent me the Ethernet board to diagnose. (After restoring our Alto,...
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