Hi
Well all this Plato talk has got me excited...
I am still looking for screen shot of my favorite stuff on the system like
Dogfight and Airfight and if I would find some references to some of the
stuff I wrote (like my Space Attack game) I would go nuts.
I have decided to contact some people here at the Quebec network of
Universities in hope on finding some Plato stuff....The Plato system was
used a lot by universites in Quebec in the early 80s. Thats when I spent
most of my time on the system...too much time...writing stuff in
tutor....also might enjoy finding the plato terminal emulator for PC (I know
it existed because I used it...) and maybe some micro-tutor/plato
stuff....even if I never used micro-plato/tutor...
I might even find an old terminal in one of the college basements somewhere
maybe...or even listings....I actually had the whole Airfight listing here
at one point and was gonna translate it to french and abandonned the
project...listing went into the garbage...like a lot of the stuff I wrote
when I was younger...now I regret....
Even had some CDC/Plato docs that I threw out long time ago...hey, I was
younger....
Here is some stuff I found...about micro plato...
Correct. The CDC-110 Micro Plato Station consisted of a CDC IST-2 or IST-3
terminal connected via a proprietary bus to a box containing its own Z80 and
an 8" DSDD floppy; the IST (containing its own 64K RAM and Z80) acted as a
terminal, while the actual CP/M crunching took place on the Z80 within the
disk-drive cabinet.
I worked for many years at the City Colleges of Chicago, which used the
PLATO
computers at the University of Illinois (and still uses PLATO's descendent,
NovaNET). During the '80s, we had a couple hundred IST terminals, most of
which were "naked" and connected only to the PLATO system, but some of which
were CDC-110s with disk drives and ran mostly Micro-TORTURE :-) lessons.
The
Micro-PLATO stuff didn't last long, mostly due to the hassle of sucking down
a
disk's worth of lessons from the central system over a 1200-bps circuit.
Don Piven - Chicago IL
Claude
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Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 22:28:15 BST