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Widely regarded as the first personal computer, Xerox’s Alto helped popularise the desktop metaphor, gaining notoriety in Silicon Valley despite untenable unit costs and limited production numbers. Comprising a portrait orientated screen atop a cabinet housing the CPU – an undeniably innovative Xerox failed to comprehend the true worth of their technology in terms of a public product offering. Many of the Alto’s features would later be refined, distilled and found within subsequent Apple offerings (notably the Macintosh) after then-CEO Steve Jobs toured Xerox in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Widely regarded as the first personal computer, Xerox’s Alto helped popularise the desktop metaphor, gaining notoriety in Silicon Valley despite untenable unit costs and limited production numbers. Comprising a portrait orientated screen atop a cabinet housing the CPU – an undeniably innovative Xerox failed to comprehend the true worth of their technology in terms of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}