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

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Thu Oct 19 20:49:24 2000

>
> Now I never the saw the hardware running Plato. I only know that it used
> a CDC cyber. So I am thinking...
>
> What are my chances of fiding one?
>
> And the plato software? (slim I guess...)
>

Check out http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm

I think many if not most CDC Cybers were rented, so probably went
back to CDC for disposal. We Ran NOS and NOS/VE operating systems
at the University of Minnesota for a long time, and MECC had a
smaller Cyber to run all the terminals spread across the state
of Minnesota (High Schools). The MECC system was a major multi-user
gaming system ;)

I only saw real Plato once, from the CDC headquarters in downtown
Minneapolis. And Avatar was awesome for its time. Heck, it would
still be awesome today. Text-based Mud's havent died yet...

I have one old Plato terminal, one of these days i need to figure
out how to hook it up properly...

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 20:49:24 BST

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