That used CDC PLATO terminal finally sold on eBay, for $72.11, which I still maintain is about $62.11 too much money. I also suggest the successful bidder donate it to the Computer History Museum; doing so would probably increase...
University of Illinois' ECE Alumni Newsletter has a nice article on Bitzer et al winning an Emmy for the plasma panel invention....
2 March 2003 -- What appears to be a CDC IST-II PLATO terminal, or perhaps it's an IST-III, is currently listed on eBay for sale by auction. Starting price is $50, which in my opinion is about $45 too high,...
An old photo of one small portion of the documents, books, and other materials collected for research on the book so far. Hopefully the next book will be fiction......
I'll be giving the first public lecture on the research I've been doing on the history of PLATO at a colloquium session at Sonoma State University on May 1st, 2003. Thanks to George Ledin, Chairman of the Department, for inviting...
Joe Maia, who used to use PLATO at the University of Delaware, writes to tell me that this site is mentioned in an article in New Scientist magazine, relating to the AOL instant messaging patent (and no doubt my discussion...
Not much new to report; busy writing the book and dealing with the business-end of the book (i.e., dealing with agents, proposals, pitches, you name it). I've also been busy with follow-up interviews....
23 December 2002 -- I'm trying to locate a particular PLATO user, probably a student at the University of Illinois circa 1973-74, who was an avid theatre-goer, someone who apparently regularly attended plays and theatrical productions and may have written...
Added a page about TERM-talk: PLATO's Instant Messaging to mark the 29th anniversary of its release . . . Follow-up at 16:30: Whoops, this site just got slashdotted again....