PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), also known as Project Plato and Project PLATO, was the first generalized computer-assisted...
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Dnd (1975 video game) (redirect from Dnd (PLATO video game))
& Dragons. dnd was written in the TUTOR programming language for the PLATO system by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood at Southern Illinois University in 1974...
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FreeCell (category PLATO (computer system) games)
University of Illinois, in the TUTOR programming language for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978. Alfille was able to display easily recognizable graphical...
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Spasim (category PLATO (computer system) games)
for the PLATO computer network and released in March 1974. The game features four teams of eight players, each controlling a planetary system, where each...
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up plato, Plato, plató, platô, or Plató in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher. Plato may...
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Empire (1973 video game) (redirect from PLATO Empire (computer game))
Empire is a computer game written for the PLATO system in 1973. It is significant for being quite probably the first networked multiplayer arena shooter-style...
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the Beast." The only remote PLATO III terminal was at Springfield High School. It was connected to the PLATO III system by a video connection and a separate...
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Moria (1975 video game) (redirect from PLATO Moria)
Moria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game developed for the PLATO system beginning around 1975 by Kevet Duncombe and Jim Battin. In the game,...
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Pedit5 (category PLATO (computer system) games)
video game developed for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's PLATO computer network by Rusty Rutherford. In it, the player controls a character...
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Avatar (1979 video game) (redirect from Avatar (PLATO system video game))
interactive role-playing video game, created on the University of Illinois' PLATO system in the late 1970s. It has graphics for navigating through a dungeon and...
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Seymour Cray (redirect from Cray Computer Corporation)
electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research...
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was established in Frankfurt. 1976 The PLATO computer-based education system was announced. 1977 PLATO Systems were implemented at all United States Institutes...
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Panther (1975 video game) (redirect from Panther (computer game))
The game was developed for the multi-user interactive computer-based education PLATO system and programmed in the TUTOR programming language and utilized...
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Donald Bitzer (category American computer scientists)
Bitzer held several patents in numerous areas, while the PLATO computer system, the first system to combine graphics and touchscreens, is the most famous...
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Airfight (category PLATO (computer system) games)
flight simulation game and first-person shooter developed for the PLATO IV computer system in 1974. It was co-authored by Brand Fortner and Kevin Gorey at...
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six-characters long. Both support linked files. PLATO (computer system) Timeline of operating systems Time-sharing system evolution Walden, David; Van Vleck, Tom...
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to experience interactive learning outcomes. One such example is PLATO (computer system) which was developed by University of Illinois for the students...
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system since 1995, which has greatly contributed to the original game's popularity. Paul Alfille implemented Freecell in 1978 for the PLATO computer system...
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ETA10 (redirect from EOS (operating system))
considered state-of-the-art, the overall package is an "extremely immature computer system," the panel concluded. The late delivery and operating problems contributed...
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network-based video games through the PLATO computer system. After college, he made some games on his Sol-20 computer, such as an adaptation of Chase, a...
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Project Xanadu (category Computer-related introductions in 1960)
hypermedia systems which are similar, including HyperWave (or Hyper-G) and: Microcosm (hypermedia system) IBM Notes (descendant of Notes on PLATO (computer system)...
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computers and their successors. NOS replaced the earlier CDC Kronos operating system of the 1970s. NOS was intended to be the sole operating system for...
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environment with initially hundreds and soon thousands of users, on the PLATO computer system based in the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1973...
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http://cholla.mmto.org/computers/firstcdc.html COMPASS for 24-bit systems CDC3100, 3200, 3300, and 3500 COMPASS for CDC3600 48-bit system COMPASS for CDC6000...
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CDC Cyber (category Control Data Corporation mainframe computers)
Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. In their day, they were the computer architecture of choice for scientific and mathematically intensive computing...
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and evaluate in a computer simulation analysis. Lastly, in the third phase the test was field-tested on the PLATO computer system, and showed that it...
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CDC 8600 (category Control Data Corporation mainframe computers)
intended to be about 10 times as fast as the 7600, already the fastest computer on the market. The design was essentially four 7600's, packed into a very...
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Bitzer, H. Gene Slottow, and graduate student Robert Willson for the PLATO computer system. The goal was to create a display that had inherent memory to reduce...
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TUTOR (category Computer-based Education Research Laboratory)
TUTOR, also known as PLATO Author Language, is a programming language developed for use on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
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Control Data Corporation (redirect from Control Data Systems)
included its promotion of the PLATO computer-aided learning system, which ran on Cyber hardware and incorporated many early computer interface innovations including...
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