The Xerox Alto was developed in 1973 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California . The name "Alto" came from the location, Palo Alto. The Alto was a development machine and was not marketed. However, machines based upon the Alto were eventually offered in the marketplace.
Xerox Palo Alto
The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC, is the lab where many of the seminal computer and networking technologies were developed over the last 30 years.
The first developed portable computer was the Xerox NoteTaker, developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), in 1976. The first mass-produced portable computer was the Osborne 1, in 1981.
XEROX Alto
Yes
The Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto
It's called the Xerox Alto
Although The Xerox Alto (developed at Xerox PARC on March 1, 1973) was one of the first computers designed for individual use - making it arguably the first "Personal Computer" - it really wasn't marketed to the public, per se. The Alto was the first computer to be housed in a "desktop" configuration and to use a mouse-driven graphical user interface. The IBM model number 5150 was introduced on August 12, 1981. It ushered in the term "Personal Computer".
a computer developed in about 5,000 years ago in china.
IBM developed the first home computer
No. Xerox was. Their Alto computer inspired Apple and other companies.