31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
9:56 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
UCCS terminals went through a concentrator to Boulder first, then on to
the CDC system
in Minnesota. At least in Colorado Springs, we did not have access to
the UI machines.
Any other
PLATO users out there? I was on udel's system in the
1978-1986 time frame, off and on, although PLATO wasn't the primary
focus of my activities.
I used PLATO in the late '70s at the University of Colorado (Colorado
Springs branch) - they had a couple of terminals which were connected
to a machine somewhere farther north; my memory waffles on whether it
was at Urbana-Champaign or Minneapolis/St-Paul.
I feel very nostalgic about it. I'd like to find
a live PLATO
community. (cyber1.org is out because they demand agreeing to foreign
legal jurisdiction, and worse, the jurisdiction they demand is in the
USA, one of the most unreasonably litigous places on the planet.)
I don't mind, living in this "unreasonably litigous place"....
I was also at UCCS in the later 70's and spent a fair bit of time on the two
PLATO plasma terminals that were across the hall from the "computing
center" (the room with the batch terminal to the CDC machines in boulder)
Bill