Plato

I just wish I could get access to it from behind our firewall. :-( (things are *really* tight here - SMTP is restricted to a small number of machines, for example; most protocols are simply blocked outright). I have fond memories of PLATO from a terminal at Ohio State, c. 1979. The two apps I remember running most often were a dungeon exploration game (that I am pretty sure was multi-player and persistent because it was nearly devoid of both treasures and monsters when I wandered through), and a chemistry lab simulation where you would "assemble" the glassware to distill liquids, etc. I know there was a lot more available, but those were the ones that I spent enough time with to make an impression. I also have a dimmer memory of using PLATO briefly when I visited an older relative at Purdue a year or two earlier, but I didn't get to play much. Ah, well... I'll have to fire it up when I get home in a few months. In the meantime, at least there are some decent 36-bit emulators to sate my nostalgia for late-70s Big Iron. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 11-Oct-2004 19:40 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -42.3 F (-41.3 C) Windchill -80.40 F (-62.5 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 21.2 kts Grid 005 Barometer 687.6 mb (10341. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html