16 Jul
2016
16 Jul
'16
2:03 a.m.
On 7/16/2016 12:54 AM, Jason T wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Jim Brain <brain
at jbrain.com> wrote:
It was interesting. It managed to squish the 512x512 into a 320x200
somehow.
I had one of those cards as well. jlb31348 at usa.cso.uiuc.edu. 1989, I
believe.
It might have been 4000, 1000 might have been the UIUC general help
line. It's been almost 30 years, the memory, she did not keep all of
that info handy, as I never thought it would be useful.
PLATO was such an interesting thing at the time at UIUC. It was
considered "old" tech, and "HyperCard" for the Macs were the new way
to
do lessons. THose wooden cases and orange screens were an interesting
sight.
I always knew there was a huge community on the PLATO machines
(University HIgh School in Urbana had them, as did other schools), but I
never got into it. IRC and USENET demanded my time (feel free to search
for jlb31348, I am sure there are plenty of horrid postings on
comp.sys.cbm and sci.virtual-reality from my days there).
Jim
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Jim Brain
brain at jbrain.com
www.jbrain.com
I so wish I could find my copy of the PLATO
client for the Commodore 64
(yep, it actually existed, I did some of my Physics 107 labs on PLATO from
my room with my C64 and my 2400 bps modem (333-1000, 217 area code, to get
to the terminal server(?) at the home of PLATO, UIUC.
I didn't know they had
dial-in for PLATO there. Here's a 1991-era
card with two similar termserv numbers:
http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/content/computing/UIUC/UIUC_NewAccountCard19…
I have somewhere the PLATO cartridge for Atari 8-bit but I've never
seen the C64 client. I'd love to try to use it with cyber1.org.