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A film from Xerox demonstrating the Xerox Star UI from back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzYRgmnJrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzYRgmnJrE
by GeekyBear 4y ago
A film from Xerox demonstrating the Xerox Star UI from back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzYRgmnJrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzYRgmnJrE
The Star was around $50,000 per additional workstation in today's dollars, although the 'starter kit' with a workstation, file/print/mail server, and laser printer that you had to purchase first ran around $240,000 in today's dollars.
- walrus01 4y agoimagine the workstation you could build today for $50k from x86-64 parts, probably a dual socket motherboard with a pair of $7000 xeons or epyc in it and 2TB+ of RAM.
- outworlder 4y agoThe keyboard has such a satisfying "clunk" sound. It puts my Cherry Blues to shame.
- kps 4y agoXerox soon replaced that keyboard due to European ergonomic standards; the newer low-profile was actually one of the first products to use Cherry MX switches. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Xerox_Star_low-profile_keyboard https://deskthority.net/wiki/Xerox_Star_low-profile_keyboard