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| | Byte Cellar :: The Vintage Computing Weblog / Forum |
 | | I was particularly pleased to find this article, having just procured a rather great condition Apple //c system to relive, in part, the good old days of that memorable first //c. |
 | | HP has been doing some "house cleaning" of late and it seems that among the casualties is Silicon Valley legend Alan Kay who was part of HP's Advanced Software Research team, one of four research projects that HP cut in an effort to reduce its workforce by 14,500 employees. |
 | | Alan Kay is known for his work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), from which sprang many landmark innovations such as: the world's first personal computer (the Alto), the graphical user interface (GUI), the mouse, Ethernet, the laser printer, object oriented programming, and many others. |
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