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12-27-2024, 11:57 PM
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Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
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Donald Bitzer, Unsung Pioneer of Interactive Computing, Dies at 90; he developed PLATO
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12-28-2024, 01:28 AM
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Registered: Mar 2016
Location: Harrow, UK
Distribution: LFS, AntiX, Slackware
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That's absolutely amazing! Plasma screens in the 1950's? Did he have a tardis or something?
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12-28-2024, 01:08 PM
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Registered: Dec 2010
Location: California, USA
Distribution: I run my own OS
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I once saw a PLATO terminal in a science museum. It had bit-mapped graphics and looked much nicer than the Commodore PETs that the museum also had. PLATO might have been successful a few years later when the hardware costs came down.
Ed
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