18 Jun
2020
18 Jun
'20
5:57 p.m.
On Jun 18, 2020, at 5:53 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 6/18/20 1:19 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
I don't know. My PLATO experience predates the PC. Are you sure that's what it
is? The later PLATO terminals (starting with the "PLATO V" one, in fact) had
local execution capability, and some of them included a floppy drive for local program
load. Those would be essentially PLATO software executing on the terminal rather that at
the host. If so, recovering that information may turn up something not previously
preserved.
If it is indeed a PLATO terminal implemented as PC software, you could hook it up to
Cyber1.
paul
Nice. Yes, airfight and any number of other
multi-user games -- a
thing made popular by PLATO and possibly originated there. There is
a running PLATO system around, see www.cyber1.org for details. Its
users normally use a terminal emulators, but real terminals can be
connected to it and a few are around that are set up that way.
In my collection, I've got a 5.25" (360K) floppy sent to me back in the
day that has the PLATO software for the IBM PC. Other than filing the
disk away, I never thought to boot it and see what was there.
Still have the disk, though. I don't imagine that it's particularly rare.