29 Jan
1999
29 Jan
'99
4:57 p.m.
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Michael Grigoni wrote:
Lawrence LeMay wrote:
Are you thinking of the CDC 110 that used 8" disks and ran CP/M and also
Plato stuff? I have the CP/M disks for one.
- don
Well, i figured it was about time I took my terminal out of the closet and
tried to get it to work again. Well, the good news is it still appears
to be working.
This beast is a Control Data Corporation Plato terminal. As far as I know,
its the original model of plato terminal.
--snip--
Plato as a project evolved through many stages; when CDC jumped in
they began by providing courseware through Cybernet and other
hosts using a terminal designed around a plasma display screen which
allowed rear-projection of slides and other overlays. The terminal
had no intelligence.
The machine you describe was a later-stage micro-based implementation
which ran CP/M and Plato courseware ported to it as well as MECC
and standard CP/M based packages. CDC Literature Distribution (in whatever form it may
still exist) should
have beaucoup hardware manuals.
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum