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

From: Mark Gregory <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
Date: Thu Oct 19 19:56:05 2000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude" <claudew_at_sprint.ca>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 6:00 PM
Subject: Who remembers CDC Plato?...run it again on a cyber at home...could
it be done?
>
> 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...
>

It's not the full system, but there was a fair bit of the Plato courseware
available for the TI-99/4A. It required an expanded TI with a PEB and at
least one SS/SD disk drive. There was a Plato "interpreter" cartridge,
which you needed to access any of the courseware, and a series of different
course packages. Somewhere in the "long term storage facility" (hall
closet) at home I have the "Introduction to French Vocabulary" package,
complete with CDC copyrights all over it. I'm sure that a search through
the many TI-related Web sites would turn up some of the Plato software.

Regards,
Mark.
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 19:56:05 BST