Xerox Alto brings back some memories indeed. I used one at CMU as a frosh to do engineering drawings for the Terragator (http://gizmodo.com/5072167/25-years-of-

Xerox Alto brings back some memories indeed. I used one at CMU as a frosh to do engineering drawings for the Terragator (http://gizmodo.com/5072167/25-years-of-strange-and-wonderful-carnegie-mellon-field-robots http://gizmodo.com/5072167/25-years-of-strange-and-wonderful...). Being new to computers, I didn't really get that a mouse and GUI were revolutionary. It just seemed so obvious. But that is the beauty of innovation done right - that to users it just seems obvious and natural.