25 Apr
1998
25 Apr
'98
3:44 a.m.
How about the CAI system that CDC had (I can't
remember the
name off hand
at the moment - I think my brain is broken - I
couldn't even
remember the
brand name of some wine I wanted to buy yesterday...
Will
chewing on a
floppy disk or two improve things :-). From my limited
exposure
it's likely
that the CDC thingy :-) had a browser style interface.
I saw a CDC demo of that once circa 1974, as I recall it was
called "Plato", used a nice orange plasma display, limited
animation, astronomical price. CDC had grandiose plans it would
be used in schools, like every high school in the country could
afford a $2 million CDC 6600 to support it. Kinda sad actually,
once Cray left CDC they didn't have a clue as to what to do
afterwards, the big iron Cyber 6000s went nowhere, the company
wound up running payroll services (the remnants of CDC are now
known as Ceridian, a batch payroll services company).
Jack Peacock