Xerox Alto Central Processing Unit
date: label: Date made
content: 1973
name: label: maker
content: Xerox Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Palo Alto
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
label: See more items in
content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Xerox Corporation, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0432.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0432.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1989.0432
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
label: Object Name
content: processor, computer, xerox alto microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/2 in x 27 3/4 in x 28 in; 57.15 cm x 70.485 cm x 71.12 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 57 in x 39 in x 43 in; 144.78 cm x 99.06 cm x 109.22 cm