19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
12:56 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude" <claudew(a)sprint.ca>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 6:00 PM
Subject: Who remembers CDC Plato?...run it again on a cyber at home...could
it be done?
The other night I was thinking that since I have now about 85% of the
"home" microcomputers from the 197x-198x I should go on to something
different...I guess running Plato here at home would be wicked...not
really usefull but great fun for me...
It's not the full system, but there was a fair bit of the Plato courseware
available for the TI-99/4A. It required an expanded TI with a PEB and at
least one SS/SD disk drive. There was a Plato "interpreter" cartridge,
which you needed to access any of the courseware, and a series of different
course packages. Somewhere in the "long term storage facility" (hall
closet) at home I have the "Introduction to French Vocabulary" package,
complete with CDC copyrights all over it. I'm sure that a search through
the many TI-related Web sites would turn up some of the Plato software.
Regards,
Mark.