[ih] DNS origins?

[Brian Carpenter]

Sure. My (unwritten) question was what flat-screen technology did they use?
I suppose a plasma display was the only option then. The original touch
screens invented at CERN by Stumpe in 1972/3 were based on CRT displays,
but certainly plasma displays were known by then.

Regards,
    Brian Carpenter
    (via tiny screen & keyboard)

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 17:56 Timothy J. Salo via Internet-history, <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 6/9/2021 9:14 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> > https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=900 makes
> interesting reading. It answers my first question: "...one of the first
> graphic amber plasma flat screen."
>
> I thought that the Plato terminal, circa 1964, was the first practical
> plasma display.
>
>    The first practical plasma video display was co-invented in 1964 at
>    the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign by Donald Bitzer, H.
>    Gene Slottow, and graduate student Robert Willson for the PLATO
>    computer system.
>
>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display>
>
> Also,
>
>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)>
>
>      And, even more off-topic:
>
>        In August 2004, a version of PLATO corresponding to the final
>        release from CDC was resurrected online. This version of PLATO
>        runs on a free and open-source software emulation of the original
>        CDC hardware called Desktop Cyber. ... Desktop Cyber accurately
>        emulates in software a range of CDC Cyber mainframe models and
>        many peripherals.
>
>      o Now, I just need a nine-track tape drive to read my old tapes.
>
>      o How much faster is my Raspberry Pi 4 (1.5 GHz clock, 8 GB memory)
>        emulating a CDC 6600 (10 MHz clock, 982 KB memory)?
>
> -tjs
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