PLATO platform/computer system
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A generalized computer assisted instruction system that once had 1000 terminals connected. Ran from the 1960s until 2006.
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PLTO 1976
PLTO 1974
PLTO 1975
PLTO 1973-05-01
PLTO 1975
ALTO 1973
CSTM 1973-09
PLTO 1974-01
Started in the 1960s at the University of Illinois, it ran until the 2000. Donald Bitzer is called "the father of PLATO". Other PLATO systems continued running until 2006. CDC (Control Data Corporation) was the manufacture and developed many applications for the PLATO. They purchased the commercial rights to the PLATO system in 1976.
PLATO saw many of the first online forums, message boards, online testing, email, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multi-player online games.
PLATO terminals were interactive. When most home PC users think of terminals today, they think of type a line, then pres ENTER, then something happens, after a pause. This is not how PLATO terminals worked. Every key press could cause a response fairly instantly. It was as if the keyboard was connected directly to the mainframe.
PLATO stands for Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations.
"Cyber1.org. No, it is not beautiful, but neither was the Millennium Falcon." - from Cyber1.org
Systems with graphical PLATO terminal emulators:
Atari 8-bit (this cartridge rocks! much better than using a text terminal)
Windows
Mac OS X
*nix (Linux, UNIX, SunOS, BSD, Solaris, etc)
PLATO saw many of the first online forums, message boards, online testing, email, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multi-player online games.
PLATO terminals were interactive. When most home PC users think of terminals today, they think of type a line, then pres ENTER, then something happens, after a pause. This is not how PLATO terminals worked. Every key press could cause a response fairly instantly. It was as if the keyboard was connected directly to the mainframe.
PLATO stands for Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations.
"Cyber1.org. No, it is not beautiful, but neither was the Millennium Falcon." - from Cyber1.org
Systems with graphical PLATO terminal emulators:
Atari 8-bit (this cartridge rocks! much better than using a text terminal)
Windows
Mac OS X
*nix (Linux, UNIX, SunOS, BSD, Solaris, etc)
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The first PLATO platform/computer system video game was released in 1968.
University of Illinois published all these games.