8 Jul
2001
8 Jul
'01
1:36 p.m.
Douglas,
It should be CDC, several guys from CDC left and came to Atari at one
point to work in the Home Computer Division (1982-1984) and among their
projects were computers with built in modems for communications and also the
Plato Terminal Cartridge for the Atari 8bit computer systems. When the
service was running I used to logon, it was amazing to see the color
graphics and animation, all well before the advent of Mosiac and "the web"
:-)
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Quebbeman" <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: PLATO IV Terminal Update
A small update regarding the search for these rare
beasts...
It was uncertain who had made them, many thinking (assuming)
it was CDC; however, given the last of the three references
below, it appears it may have been made by Magnavox.
Still want one...
-dq
70mr02 Stifle, J. "A Plasma Display Terminal." CERL Report X-15, M
arch 1970; revised: June 1973. Also appears as "The PLATO IV Student
Terminal." Nov. 1974
74au01 Stifle, J. "The PLATO IV Terminal: Description of Operation."
Revised: Aug. 1974
97xx01 PLATO IV: Site Controller Communications Interface for the
PLATO IV Computer-based Education System. Magnavox, undated.