Comment by wkat4242
2 years ago
Link broken. But I read about Plato in that book the Happy Orange Glow or something like it. Didn't make it all the way through but it sounded groundbreaking
2 years ago
Link broken. But I read about Plato in that book the Happy Orange Glow or something like it. Didn't make it all the way through but it sounded groundbreaking
The Friendly Orange Glow
The author also had an article on PLATO emoticons as the book was in development: http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-rev...
Ars did a really great overview of the system back in March.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educati...
It's incredible what they got out of those CDC machines. I wish I had the EE skills to figure out how they did it. I suspect that the vacuum tubes might have yielded some compute capabilities far beyond transistors of the era, given the very high power levels you can get in tubes. But I don't know. It might just be very open-ended approaches to memory registers, or simply letting the plasma display do its own thing rather than wipe it back to its initial state.