<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">For those interested in studying primary materials (source code, documentation, etc.) from the Alto system built at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, the Computer History Museum has released an archive with snapshots of the Alto file servers at PARC taken at various times from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This @CHM blog post introduces the archive:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">Xerox Alto Source Code: The roots of the modern personal computer</div><div class="">Paul McJones</div><div class="">October 21, 2014</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/" class="">http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/</a></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A “walk-through” of the archive is here: <a href="http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system_archive.html" class="">http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system_archive.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The archive is here: <a href="http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/" class="">http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More detail about the archive (provenance, naming conventions, file types, etc.) is available here: <a href="http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system_archive.html/#Archive" class="">http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system_archive.html/#Archive</a> .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul McJones</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>