And here is Ken's new post in the series http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html
Marc > On Jun 21, 2016, at 10:59 PM, CuriousMarc <curiousma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The restoration is physically happening at my place. As noted below we have > a small and quite knowledgeable group of people contributing, including > actual hardware when we are missing a part (thanks Al !). A few of us are > chronicling this on our favorite media from our favorite angle. > I like to make short videos trying to convey the inside story of the > restoration, on my YouTube channel: > https://www.youtube.com/curiousmarc > It's interspersed with all the other restorations, but two videos so far: > https://youtu.be/YupOC_6bfMI > https://youtu.be/xPyqQXFC2yw > Ed Thelen likes to collect every bit of raw information floating around, > including some of the team emails and throw them into equally raw site, as > he does for the IBM 1401 restoration effort at CHM: > http://ed-thelen.org/RestoreAlto/index.html > Carl Claunch methodically recounts everything he does every day (and he does > a lot), so when he works on the Alto, you'll know every detail: > http://rescue1130.blogspot.com/ > Ken Shirriff makes deeply researched, superlative detailed posts on his > blog. These are reference pieces, I admire them a lot: > http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html > And it gets discussed on the Y-combinator (the owners of the machine) and > hopefully here too. > Seeing the interest, I will make an effort to post new links when they > become available, unless of course Master Al beats me to it. > > Marc > > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 8:54 AM > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines > > http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11929396 > http://ed-thelen.org/RestoreAlto/index.html > >> On 6/20/16 8:51 AM, Al Kossow wrote: >> I post just went up on Saturday. It's nice that both CHM and LCM folks >> are helping with this. >> >> >>> On 6/20/16 8:41 AM, Liam Proven wrote: >>> http://www.righto.com/2016/06/y-combinators-xerox-alto-restoring.html >>> >>> Found via: >>> >>> http://www.osnews.com/story/29261/Xerox_Alto_restoring_the_legendary_ >>> 1970s_GUI_computer >>> >>> There are 2 videos up so far, with disassemblies that may interest >>> CCmpers. >>> >>> Some people from the list are involved, including Al Kossow, but I >>> haven't seen the link posted. >>> >> >
