#PTERM CYBER1 INSTALL#

When I logged in today there were 27 users online and 5,095 registered users. That should get you into the PLATO IV system running on an emulated Control Data Mainframe just as it was back in the 1970/80's Use any login names 'demo1' - 'demo10' The group is 'demo' The password is 'demo'

To login you need to know: The Plato NEXT key in return SHIFT-STOP is shift CTRL-s BACK is CTRL-b LAB is CTRL-l Once in pterm check the help menu to see the key mapping. The full instructions on using PLATO IV are here:

#PTERM CYBER1 INSTALL#

(Mac users need to hold down control right-click and choose 'open' to install it) You can get a Plato IV terminal emulator here: So, if you login you will see it as it was back then and perhaps just as you remember it if you used it in the 70s/80s.Īll you need to use PLATO IV is the PLATO terminal emulator - pterm The PLATO IV system is running as it was back in the 1980's - including content. There is a Plato IV system running on an emulated CDC mainframe here: You can read more about PLATO IV here: (computer_system) Many modern concepts in multi-user computing were originally developed on PLATO, including forums, message boards, online testing, e-mail, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multiplayer video games. By the late 1970s, it supported several thousand graphics terminals distributed worldwide, running on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. The PLATO IV system I used was running on a Control Data Cyber mainframe located at the University of Illinois ( CERL - Computer-based Education Research Laboratory

If you were in college back in the 1970/80's maybe you were on the PLATO IV system. I perused through 6 months of this mainframe community and I see that there is no mention of any mainframe other than IBM.

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