Who remembers CDC Plato?...run it again on a cyber at home...could it be done?

From: Claude <claudew_at_sprint.ca>
Date: Thu Oct 19 19:00:15 2000

Hi

I grew up having access to the Plato system at the University near my
home. A neighboor was a chemistry teacher there and knew I was
interested in computers and gave me access to a bunch of stuff at the
university and I guess CDC's Plato was the most fun.

I went on to write a few games for the system when I was about 15-16
(1980) in that "tutor" language. I spent a lotta time on that system...A
lot...It was like an early "internet" with network games etc...that
thing was great!

The other night I was thinking that since I have now about 85% of the
"home" microcomputers from the 197x-198x I should go on to something
different...I guess running Plato here at home would be wicked...not
really usefull but great fun for me...

Now I never the saw the hardware running Plato. I only know that it used
a CDC cyber. So I am thinking...

What Cyber ran plato?

How big were they?(I heard of huge! Did not find any pics on the
internet of one...)

What are my chances of fiding one?

And the plato software? (slim I guess...)

If I remember well, there was a emulator for the IBMPC to run a plato
terminal....no touch screen but still...anybody remember this?...that
could save me from having to look for an old "plasma" terminal like they
called them back then...

Thanks for reading
Claude
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 19:00:15 BST