18 Jun
2020
18 Jun
'20
2:53 p.m.
On 6/18/20 1:19 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Nice. Yes, airfight and any number of other
multi-user games -- a
thing made popular by PLATO and possibly originated there. There is
a running PLATO system around, see www.cyber1.org for details. Its
users normally use a terminal emulators, but real terminals can be
connected to it and a few are around that are set up that way.
In my collection, I've got a 5.25" (360K) floppy sent to me back in the
day that has the PLATO software for the IBM PC. Other than filing the
disk away, I never thought to boot it and see what was there.
Still have the disk, though. I don't imagine that it's particularly rare.
--Chuck