9 Feb
2004
9 Feb
'04
11:32 a.m.
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
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Keys wrote:
Has anyone ever seen one of these ?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2785574420&categ…
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.