Xerox Alto The Xerox Alto is the first computer designed from its inception to support an operating system based on a graphical user interface (GUI), later using the desktop metaphor . The first machines were introduced on 1 March 1973, a decade before mass market GUI machines arose.
Digital storage gets small (and huge) From the room-size monster that cost a king's ransom to the diminutive device that today costs just a few bucks, the evolution of the hard drive is an amazing story of an industry that's continually delivering more for less.