> On Jul 15, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 15 July 2016 at 17:57, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>> Actually, if you want to see really good online help -- vastly better even
>> than that of VMS -- take a look at PLATO. To become a PLATO programmer, all
>> you'd need was for the admin to hand you your login credentials along with
>> "sit down at a terminal and follow instructions". A logged out terminal
>> would display "Press NEXT to begin" -- you'd do that and literally
>> everything from that point on would be described by on-line help of one kind
>> or another.
>
> Sounds great. I never saw a PLATO terminal. :-( Wish I had now!
You can. Check out cyber1.org -- a real PLATO system running on an emulated
CDC Cyber.
paul
