[ih] DNS origins?

[Bob Purvy]

So funny (well, to me anyway) that I was at UIUC in the late 60's / early
70's, and my *sole* contact with PLATO was as a subject in a Psych 100
experiment in my freshman year. They were in a different building from DCL,
and I almost never heard anything about them. I don't think they interacted
much with the CS department.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:52 AM vinton cerf via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I think there is a book about PLATO and the plasma screen titled "The
> Friendly Orange Glow"
>
> http://friendlyorangeglow.com/
>
> v
>
>
> 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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