[Web4lib] PLATO?

[Richard Wiggins]

We had a Plato device with the orange plasma display at Michigan State
sometime in the mid 70s.  MSU shares some other history with Illinois.  Our
first computer, MISTIC, was a clone of the ILLIAC.  And MSU chose CDC
computers to follow MISTIC, well into the 1970s.  CDC's CEO, William Norris,
had a sister on the faculty at MSU.

Ah, the late, lamented Control Data Corporation.

Back in the mid 1970s it had to be Arpanet and / or point to point
connections, not the Internet.

/rich

On Nov 27, 2007 12:33 PM, Ward Price <wprice at utpa.edu> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about PLATO.  It was
> interesting to see the comments of the people who actually used it.
>
> Ward Price
> Reference Librarian
> The University of Texas-Pan American
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>  -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7:24 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] PLATO?
>
> We've been discussing gaming in libraries recently, which caused a
> flashback.  When I was an undergraduate student at Indiana University,
> perhaps around 1974-75, the University of Illinois had something called
> PLATO, which was some kind of ancient Internet game or program running
> at their campus in Urbana-Champaign.  IU students in Bloomington,
> Indiana, would go to the library and log on via an Internet connection
> (I guess they were telnetting) to UIUC to play the game.  I had no idea
> what they were doing back then; the Internet was only about 5 years old
> at the time, fifteen years before the World Wide Web.  The IU students
> who were using it thought it was pretty cool.  I wonder what they'd
> think about it now.  Anyway, does this sound familiar?  Does anyone know
> what the heck I'm talking about?  Just curious.
>
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>
> Ward Price
>
> Reference Librarian
>
> The University of Texas-Pan American
>
> Edinburg, TX  78541
>
> wprice at utpa.edu
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> (956) 316-7046
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