Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation (Mike Ross)

[Robert Garner]

Chandra, Mike,

I was delighted to have purchased the Xerox Alto-I
from John and Heather several months ago.

I was equally excited when I purchased from John
the McMasterUniv/KevinStumpf PDP-15 several years ago.
I used/programmed both of these machines long ago at Xerox PARC
and Arizona State University, respectively.

I invited Chuck Thacker (designer) & Ron Cude over soon
after the Alto-I arrived to review the boards and discuss
a bring-up strategy.  Although I'm progressing very slowly,
I've been reforming/checking the caps/power supplies.
OK so far.

Some day I'll get info up on a web site to share...

- Robert

p.s.  Check out "Dealers of Lightning:  Xerox PARC and the
Dawn of the Computer Age".  A generally accurate technical
history of PARC during the 70's/80's.


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> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:59:30 +0000
> From: "Mike Ross" <mross666 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation
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> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:32:18 -0400
> From: "Chandra Bajpai" <cbajpai at comcast.net>
> Subject: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation
>
>> Has anyone every heard of these guys.they seem to up in Canada and are
>> painstakingly restoring an Xerox Alto I since April 2003.
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> That would be the Bordynuiks, Heather & John IIRC. They had a bunch of 
> stuff
> on ebay a while back, bought some pdp-11/20 memory from them. Other 
> than
> that my contact with them has been minimal.
>
> They own pdp8.com - they had some nice stuff, including a nice pdp-15 
> with
> drum IIRC. Think Robert Garner has that one now...
>
> The Alto restoration is one *very* impressive bit of work, they're 
> serious
> hardware engineers - seem to recall they also (according to rumour) had
> something to do with Paul Allen and his KL...
>
> Mike
> http://www.corestore.org
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