Before the Mac There was the Alto: An Amazing Commercial from the 70s Subscribe Posted by Michael Pinto on Apr 25, 2012 in Tech Shown below is an amazing commercial from the 70s for the Xerox Alto: This amazing computer was first released in 1973 and featured all the cool features we associate with the PC today like a graphic user interface, a mouse and desktop publishing. While the the computer was a commercial failure, it went on to inspire the Macintosh in the the 80s and Windows in the 90s.







