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I think there is a book about PLATO and the plasma screen titled "The
Friendly Orange Glow"

http://friendlyorangeglow.com/

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 6:51 AM John Day via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> The touch facility that we did in ’75 wasn’t on the screen but with
> infrared sensors (I think) around the edge of the screen.
>
> Plato was using the plasma screens well before, we did that terminal. We
> just grabbed a few for that project.
>
> John
>
> > On Jun 10, 2021, at 02:58, Brian Carpenter via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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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