> On Jul 15, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 15 July 2016 at 17:57, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
> ...
>> Actually, if you want to see really good online help -- vastly better even 
>> than that of VMS -- take a look at PLATO.  To become a PLATO programmer, all 
>> you'd need was for the admin to hand you your login credentials along with 
>> "sit down at a terminal and follow instructions".  A logged out terminal 
>> would display "Press NEXT to begin" -- you'd do that and literally 
>> everything from that point on would be described by on-line help of one kind 
>> or another.
> 
> Sounds great. I never saw a PLATO terminal. :-( Wish I had now!

You can.  Check out cyber1.org -- a real PLATO system running on an emulated 
CDC Cyber.

        paul

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