PLATO Gallery (Was: RE: PLATO IV Terminal Update)

While CDC provided the mainframe hardware support, Donald Bitzer at the University of Illinois created PLATO. Around 1981, UofI and CDC parted ways, with both retaining ownership of PLATO. But every piece of CDC equipment I've ever said had the distinctive style of CDC equipment design, and the PLATO plasma display terminal didn't have the CDC look. Seems I vaguely recall being told 25 years ago that they were indeed made by Magnavox. PLATO still lives, you know, at least the UofI version does, as NovaNET. I've been granted access to NovaNET as a "distinguished visiting scholar". I've put a gallery of PLATO scren shots at: http://members.iglou.com/dougq/cdc/post-login.jpg http://members.iglou.com/dougq/cdc/llist-index.jpg http://members.iglou.com/dougq/cdc/recreation.jpg http://members.iglou.com/dougq/cdc/choose.jpg and then a more complete gallery at: http://members.iglou.com/dougq/plato_index.html that brings you to a page that has thumbnails of the entire gallery. If you're on a slow link, you may want to jump straight to the first frame: http://members.iglou.com/dougq/plato/html/PlatoIV-00.html then you can "press" "Next" each frame to advance to the next. This way, it plays back a little bit like it looked on screen, except the tiny amount of animation the lesson provides can't be seen on these pages. I have a second gallery, showing the multi-user game EMPIRE, but right now I'm shy of space to upload it. Regards, -doug quebbeman