The recent auction of Paul Allen’s estate included not only an Apple Lisa, but a Xerox Alto II XM. After having been wowed by it at the Living Computer Museum, I humored the idea of buying the Xerox Alto – but the price went a lot higher than I was interested in spending ($252,000). Even the Computing Museum auction Xerox Star went for a measly $81,900.

Instead, there are some great videos on the Xerox Star in action such as this one by the Vintage Computer Federation which compares the Xerox Star and the Lisa.