remember there was also a cdc institute that would teach you to program
too....
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Subject: Re: Control Data Computer At $66.00
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Keys wrote:
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> > Has anyone ever seen one of these ?
> >
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2785574420&category=4193
>
> Oh, very cool.
>
> I've never seen it before but basically it's a cheap terminal to the CDC
> Plato system which was fairly popular in from the mid-1970s through the
> early 1980s. Normally you had to have a fancy terminal to access all the
> advanced features of Plato. This is a TI 99/4a re-branded as CDC and sold
> with a terminal program carthridge to emulate a Plato terminal.
>
> Neat.
>
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