{"id":18171,"date":"2017-06-14T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18171"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:47:07","slug":"charles-thacker-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/14\/charles-thacker-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Thacker, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2017\/06\/charles-thacker-key-designer-of-the-xerox-alto-dies-at-74\/\">Cyrus Farivar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2017\/06\/charles-thacker-key-designer-of-the-xerox-alto-dies-at-74\/\">\n<p>Charles Thacker, one of the lead hardware designers on the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, died of a brief illness on Monday. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p>The Alto, which was released in 1973 but was never a commercial success, was an incredibly influential machine. Ahead of its time, it boasted resizeable windows as part of its graphical user interface, along with a mouse, Ethernet, and numerous other technologies that didn&rsquo;t become standard until years later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyrus Farivar: Charles Thacker, one of the lead hardware designers on the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, died of a brief illness on Monday. He was 74. The Alto, which was released in 1973 but was never a commercial success, was an incredibly influential machine. Ahead of its time, it boasted resizeable windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[762,295,208,531],"class_list":["post-18171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ethernet","tag-history","tag-rip","tag-xerox"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18172,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions\/18172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}