PLATO and learning models (was Re: NuTek Mac comes)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 07/15/2016 05:47 PM, Paul Koning wrote:

> Graphics terminals were quite rare in the early 1970s, at least at a
> cost allowing them to be installed in the hundreds, and with
> processing requirements low enough for that.  I remember, around the
> same time, the Tektronix 4010.  But that was far less flexible; it
> could only draw, not erase, unlike the PLATO terminals.

Surely you remember CDC IGS from the 70s.  I loved watching the displays
being drawn on those big radar CRT displays--one color while drawing and
persisting in another.

They were "terminals" of a sort, no?

--Chuck