PLATO lives and Then Some...

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The Gentle Reader may remember my note on the old PLATO educational computer system. We are up to around 100 or so users now...with up to 20 or 30 signed on at the same time. Check out:

http://www.cyber1.org

You Too can get a login and see what us Old Geeks were doing back before many of you were born. Oh ghu... it was heart rending the first time I was giving training to someone who was born AFTER I had written my first program (a Fortran IV add-two-numbers-and-print-the-results thing in 1968!)

Cool pictures of the old PLATO classrooms at the University of Illinois:

http://plato.filmteknik.com/

And on a rediculous patent slant:

Microsoft is trying to patent the student answer judging concepts that we were all using back in -gasp- 1977. Don't those guys ever search for "prior art"????

GcB

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<<cool>> I just popped a note on the PLATO system saying what Good Guys Indigo Rose are. I think I made a sale for you! <grin> Just send me a t-shirt!