19 Sep
2011
19 Sep
'11
4:21 p.m.
On 9/19/2011 2:20 AM, SPC wrote:
Interesting. In the original thread of this message I
pasted this excerpt
from the Wikipedia articla about PLATO:
"An attempt to mass-market the PLATO system was introduced in 1980 as
Micro-PLATO, which ran the basic
TUTOR<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUTOR_%28programming_language%29>s…
on a CDC "Viking-721" terminal and various home computers. Versions
were built for the Texas Instruments
TI-99/4A<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A>4A>,
Atari 8-bit family<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family>ly>, Zenith
Z-100<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bus> and, later, Radio
Shack<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Shack>
TRS-80<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80> and IBM Personal
Computer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer>
"
Would you like to expand this paragraph ? If you are sure about this matter,
I think that would be a good idea to indicate it there. Or some kind of
reference.
I am not sure my information fits. My C64 emu ran against the actual
PLATO installation at UIUC, as far as I know, not MicroPLATO.
Jim