Control Data Computer At $66.00

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Mon Feb 9 11:32:02 2004

Atari actually hired in a bunch of former CDC managers, they released a
Plato Network cartridge for the Atari 800. It used the graphics mode 8
(192X320) mode and I remember signing up in 84-85 for the service and it
was incredible to see animated screens and simple music come up from the
service.... too bad it closed, it was a spectacular
pre-today's-internet look at what would come down the road.


Curt


J.C. Wren wrote:

> His fonts aren't large enough. There's still a few pixels available
> on my monitor.
>
> --jc
>
> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Keys wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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