10 May
2007
10 May
'07
3:19 p.m.
On 5/10/07, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote:
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
When I was attending UIUC from 89-93, the PLATO
terminals (the 80's era
slanted boxes with the cream sides and the black-ish front) were still
in heavy use in the Physics and Chem areas. However, since we were
Memory flood! I don't remember those there....but I don't think I had
any classes that used them. I just remember them from the Engineering
Open House days (which would have been a similar period, probably
88-90.) They could very well have been those boxes rather than the
wooden ones, which I've probably seen in pictures and inserted into my
memories. Definitely had the orange plasma screens, though.
My hangout was 8-English (wonder when the old-school terminals were
finally removed? I still remember my uxa.cso.uiuc.edu login, and
picking up my greenbar printouts in the mailtray next to the
sysadmin's desk down there) and occasionally DCL... They had a couple
NeXTs and an Amiga 500 on ethernet! Oh, the mighty speed of Kermit!
During the 90-91 year, I stumbled upon a Commodore 64
software
implementation of the base PLATO system, which could connect the servers
using the university dialup (333-1100 or something).
Hmm....was that Winchester or Mossberg? ;)
I've never seen the C64 implementation, but that's something worth
finding. I know the Atari PLATO cart is pretty rare.