What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Jan 12 09:22:43 CST 2017


> On Jan 11, 2017, at 9:30 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 11, 2017 9:00 PM, "Paul Koning" <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> Mine is: a working PLATO terminal -- orange plasma panel -- skillfully
> restored to full operating condition by Aaron Woolfson.  It's connected to
> a PLATO system I brought back to life, runnning on an emulated CDC 6000
> series machine (DtCyber emulator by Tom Hunter).
>> 
>>        paul
>> 
>> 
> 
> This In would like to see!

The Living Computer Museum in Seattle has several, both the microprocessor based "PLATO V" terminal I have, and the original straight logic "PLATO IV" terminals built by Magnavox.  All working.  I've seen them logged on at the Cyber1.org PLATO system (that's the one I mentioned).

	paul



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