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Would it be possible to publish detailed photos of Xerox Alto (populated) PCBs that would allow creation of replicas?



The complete schematics of the Xerox Alto are on Bitsavers. I don't think photos would help a lot with generating a PCB, since the chips cover much of the wiring.

A bigger problem with a Xerox Alto replica is the wire-wrapped backplane. It would be a pain to redo that by hand.

For most purposes, you'd be better off using the ContrAlto emulator.

Schematic link: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/schematics ContrAlto link: https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto




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