> On Jul 11, 2023, at 11:11 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Coincidentally I am doing research into this topic and here is a great
> article that you all would find on topic to this discussion
>
> https://www.vintagecomputer.net/CISC367/creative%20computing%20mar-apr%201977%20UDel-Sound-Synthisizer.pdf
Wow, that's a truly uncivilized piece of work. He describes at some length how
PLATO was used for this, without ever naming, let alone crediting, Sherwin
Gooch as the inventor of that "four voice synthesizer". That's a GSW he's
referring to.
> I have one of the U of Delaware Plato Synths btw...working to get it
> running eventually. Just need a Plato or a way to emulate it.
PLATO is available, and the one described at cyber1.org has GSW software and a
terminal emulator that includes GSW emulation. It wouldn't be all that hard to
take that emulator and connect it to an actual GSW (and I'd be interested in
hearing side by side comparison of the emulator and the real thing.
Apart from that, you can of course create your own driver software for one of
those, since it's all documented in the patent and/or the online documentation
on PLATO.
paul
