Re: Requesting help with imaging a PLATO disk

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Apr 27, 12:37 pm, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Last year I came into possession of a PLATO-branded disk.  I loaded it
> up, and it's an interactive tutorial for the basics of computing.
> There are mini-games that teach computing concepts as you play them,
> storybook-style presentations (including a section that speculates on
> the future!), and some other elements.  It's an interesting little
> window into how computers were perceived by and presented to the
> public at the time, and it's also the first piece of software with the
> PLATO name that I've ever seen on a microcomputer.  The copyright date
> on the disk is 1982, and the title screen asserts Control Data's
> ownership:

There was a whole set of Plato courseware that was released for the
TI-99 computer... was one of the big selling points in 1983.