3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
7:25 a.m.
Hi Richard -
Yeah I found it late in the middle of the night last night. They
have a custom terminal program called pterm (plato term I assume) that
connects via port 5400 over to their server and brings up the Plato
login screen. I applied for a username and hopefully will be able to
try it out again, I was hoping though to use my Atari setup. I'm going
to email them today and see if they may have plans to put in hooks to
allow them to connect a terminal server up, otherwise I'm going to
tinker around a bit here in the office and make a gateway and see if I
can null modem over to a PC from my Atari and and have the PC pipe the
stream down through the null modem connection to the Atari, worth a shot.
Curt
Richard wrote:
In article <45C3CEAA.2030607 at
atarimuseum.com>,
"Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> writes:
I read a long while back that several people had
gotten the Plato
Network running again, I was looking on the Plato People site, but I
guess they may not be the ones doing it, but someone else.
I have The Learning Phone which is a software package developed by Atari
and Control Data in late 1983 to allow Atari 8bit computers to dial into
and connect to the Plato Network.
I wanted to see if the network is back up and if they have standard
modem dial in numbers as I'd really love to see the system working again
on my Atari 800.
Its my understanding that the PLATO system is running on an emulator
on a PC. No genuine terminals, no genuine hardware, just a
simulation. While that lets you experience the software again (to be
honest, I don't know where they got the images to run on the
simulator!), there isn't any genuine hardware in the setup. IIRC, to
connect to it you use telnet.