Plato terminal

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Jan 30 00:57:49 1999

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Michael Grigoni wrote:

> 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.

Are you thinking of the CDC 110 that used 8" disks and ran CP/M and also
Plato stuff? I have the CP/M disks for one.
                                                 - don
 
> CDC Literature Distribution (in whatever form it may still exist) should
> have beaucoup hardware manuals.
>
> Michael Grigoni
> Cybertheque Museum
>
Received on Sat Jan 30 1999 - 00:57:49 GMT