A research machine built to explore and demonstrate what a personal computer could eventually become, rather than to be sold or mass-produced, distinct from an early mass-market microcomputer. Belongs here: Xerox Alto, the atlas's sole experimental-workstation entity, the research machine that demonstrated the graphical user interface, the mouse and networked personal computing well before they reached the market. Does not belong here: a machine that was itself sold as a product, filed under Microcomputer or Commercial Computer.
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The first machines were introduced on March 1, 1973, and in limited production starting one decade before Xerox's designs inspired Apple to release the first mass-market GUI computers.
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