31 Jan
1999
31 Jan
'99
10:52 p.m.
In a message dated 1/30/99 3:33:03 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
geoffrob(a)netcafe.pirie.mtx.net.au writes:
I vaguely seem to remember that the Plato Courseware
also ran, or they had a
version for, the TI99/4A.
They were pushing it at schools and the like IIRC.
My first real computer was a TI....Still got it here somewhere, complete
with the expansion box and 24k of additional ram, and a 5.25" FDD.
yes, you are correct. I bought a complete unused CDC version of the ti
computer at a radio rally and got about 50 plato courseware titles. it was
indeed made for schools.
1 Feb
1 Feb
3 p.m.
My first experience with a networked computer (my first computer experience
was playing "Battleship" after hours with my dad on the brand-new Burroughs
machine his bank bought -- this was '75 or '76) was in '79 when I visited U of
I
(Illinois) when I was looking at colleges to go to. In addition to terminals in the
engineering labs, they had Plato terminals scattered throughout the campus.
These were the ones with the orange plasma displays that were fairly adept at
displaying graphics, in addition to projected slides. IIRC, the ones I played with
also had touch screens. Pretty cool for the time.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
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