On 07/16/2016 10:34 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> IGS? Two colors? Don't recognize that. There's the 6000 console
> (DD60), very expensive, requiring a dedicated processor to feed it,
> and limited to uppercase text only plus very small amounts of
> graphics (a dot at a time, 3 microseconds per dot)
> On Jul 15, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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> On 07/15/2016 05:47 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> 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,
On Jul 15, 2016, at 9:34 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The 4010 can erase just fine. The pr
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> 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.
The 4010 can erase just fine. The problem is that it can't do
selective erase, only
full-screen
On 07/15/2016 05:47 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> 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
> On Jul 15, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
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> On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Swift Griggs wrote:
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>> * 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 1
On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Swift Griggs wrote:
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> * It had graphics, but ran on terminals!
Graphics terminals were a thing that existed. It wasn’t just PLATO that used
them.
-- Chris
> On Jul 15, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
> ...
> Cool things about PLATO:
> * It had graphics, but ran on terminals!
> * It could do animations in the content
> * It supported speech synthesis. Blind folks want to play too!
> * Cool people were involved (NSF, Navy, Air Force, m
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
> Sounds great. I never saw a PLATO terminal. :-( Wish I had now!
I wish they'd had a few at schools I attended. I think someone on the list
mentioned that PLATO content could be viewed on Apple hardware, too. The
wikipedia article on it is very detailed.
