> On Jul 15, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Chris Hanson <cmhan...@eschatologist.net> wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> * It had graphics, but ran on terminals! > > Graphics terminals were a thing that existed. It wasn’t just PLATO that used > them.
Graphics terminals were quite rare in the early 1970s, at least at a cost allowing them to be installed in the hundreds, and with processing requirements low enough for that. I remember, around the same time, the Tektronix 4010. But that was far less flexible; it could only draw, not erase, unlike the PLATO terminals. paul