On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Claude.W wrote:
> 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.
Well, id anyone comes up with an operable CDC-110, I can provide the
following 8" disks for it:
CDC-110 Viking
Name Format Description
CD110DIA DSDD8 CP/M 2.2 diagnostics disk
CD110SYS DSDD8 CP/M 2.2 system disk
CDC-PLAT DSDD8 non CP/M Plato control software & instructional
- don
> 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
> http://www.members.tripod.com/computer_collector
> or
> http://computer_collector.tripod.com
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 23:57:30 BST