{"id":12402,"date":"2024-12-02T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12402"},"modified":"2024-10-09T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T06:04:49","slug":"xerox-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12402","title":{"rendered":"Xerox Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBiWtJJN5zk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/auction\/pushing-boundaries-ingenuity-from-the-paul-g-allen-collection-30730\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/auction\/pushing-boundaries-ingenuity-from-the-paul-g-allen-collection-30730\/\">recent auction<\/a> of Paul Allen&#8217;s estate included not only an Apple Lisa, but a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/lot\/lot-6495042\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/lot\/lot-6495042\">Xerox Alto II XM<\/a>. After having been wowed by it at the Living Computer Museum, I humored the idea of buying the Xerox Alto &#8211; but the price went a lot higher than I was interested in spending ($252,000). Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineonly.christies.com\/s\/firsts-history-computing-paul-g-allen-collection\/lots\/3726?COSID=44021900&amp;cid=DM517204&amp;bid=431641876\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/onlineonly.christies.com\/s\/firsts-history-computing-paul-g-allen-collection\/lots\/3726?COSID=44021900&amp;cid=DM517204&amp;bid=431641876\">Computing Museum auction Xerox Star went for a measly $81,900<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, there are some great videos on the Xerox Star in action such as this one by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vcfederation\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vcfederation\">Vintage Computer Federation<\/a> which compares the Xerox Star and the Lisa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent auction of Paul Allen&#8217;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 &#8211; 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12402\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3e2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12405,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}