[HECnet] Younger generations

[Dave McGuire]

On 4/21/21 2:22 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Indeed.  While a lot of us are old timers, there definitely are younger generation members involved.  To pick one example: the PLATO system (described at cyber1.org) has a non-trivial percentage of users on it that never experienced the original system.  Some are just using it, some are actually creating new software.  A group from Switzerland is using it as the platform to teach a course about computer gaming design, including some newly created PLATO games!  And I think the current expert in PLATO terminal restauration isn't old enough to have seen the original, yet he has restored a number of original units to full operating condition.

  I need to get in touch with that crowd.  We have a PLATO terminal at
LSSM; I'd love for us to have museum-related instructional programming
running on there.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA