PLATO system / CDC mainframe / PLATO terminals

[Richard]

In article <200602020721.CAA28775 at Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>,
    der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>  writes:

> I was that kid of 13 or so. :-)

Well, I never got any publicity over it, but similarly I was 13 and
teaching myself BASIC on UDel's HP3000 and then later the PDP-11/70
run by Project DELTA.  I was in 8th grade (middle school) at the time
and everyone seemed rather impressed, but it just seemed like another
intellectual pursuit to me.  I also used PLATO (the educational
software was fun at that age), did a teensy eensy bit of Tutor
programming, and got my EE undergrad degree there as well.
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