Plato terminal

From: Michael Grigoni <msg_at_waste.org>
Date: Fri Jan 29 21:57:59 1999

Lawrence LeMay wrote:
>
> Well, i figured it was about time I took my terminal out of the closet and
> tried to get it to work again. Well, the good news is it still appears
> to be working.
>
> This beast is a Control Data Corporation Plato terminal. As far as I know,
> its the original model of plato terminal.

--snip--

Plato as a project evolved through many stages; when CDC jumped in
they began by providing courseware through Cybernet and other
hosts using a terminal designed around a plasma display screen which
allowed rear-projection of slides and other overlays. The terminal
had no intelligence.

The machine you describe was a later-stage micro-based implementation
which ran CP/M and Plato courseware ported to it as well as MECC
and standard CP/M based packages.

CDC Literature Distribution (in whatever form it may still exist) should
have beaucoup hardware manuals.

Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
Received on Fri Jan 29 1999 - 21:57:59 GMT