PLATO IV Terminal Update

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atari-history.com>
Date: Sun Jul 8 20:36:05 2001

Douglas,

   It should be CDC, several guys from CDC left and came to Atari at one
point to work in the Home Computer Division (1982-1984) and among their
projects were computers with built in modems for communications and also the
Plato Terminal Cartridge for the Atari 8bit computer systems. When the
service was running I used to logon, it was amazing to see the color
graphics and animation, all well before the advent of Mosiac and "the web"
:-)


Curt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Quebbeman" <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: PLATO IV Terminal Update


> A small update regarding the search for these rare beasts...
>
> It was uncertain who had made them, many thinking (assuming)
> it was CDC; however, given the last of the three references
> below, it appears it may have been made by Magnavox.
>
> Still want one...
> -dq
>
>
> 70mr02 Stifle, J. "A Plasma Display Terminal." CERL Report X-15, M
> arch 1970; revised: June 1973. Also appears as "The PLATO IV Student
> Terminal." Nov. 1974
>
> 74au01 Stifle, J. "The PLATO IV Terminal: Description of Operation."
> Revised: Aug. 1974
>
> 97xx01 PLATO IV: Site Controller Communications Interface for the
> PLATO IV Computer-based Education System. Magnavox, undated.
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