1 Feb
1999
1 Feb
'99
3 p.m.
My first experience with a networked computer (my first computer experience
was playing "Battleship" after hours with my dad on the brand-new Burroughs
machine his bank bought -- this was '75 or '76) was in '79 when I visited U of
I
(Illinois) when I was looking at colleges to go to. In addition to terminals in the
engineering labs, they had Plato terminals scattered throughout the campus.
These were the ones with the orange plasma displays that were fairly adept at
displaying graphics, in addition to projected slides. IIRC, the ones I played with
also had touch screens. Pretty cool for the time.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
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