Hi All,

I heard this on the RCR podcast and checked it out. very interesting.

Probably more-so for our U.S. friends who can remember PLATO. 8-)


Check it out.

https://www.irata.online/


You will need a Plato compatible Terminal prog which you can get from the site. Regards..Geo
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Geo wrote to All:

Hi All,

I heard this on the RCR podcast and checked it out. very interesting.

Probably more-so for our U.S. friends who can remember PLATO. 8-)

Check it out.

https://www.irata.online/

You will need a Plato compatible Terminal prog which you can get from the site.

Kewl. What's the difference between irata.online and cyber1.org? Are they networked in any way?

I hate fragmentation in community-building.



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Geo wrote to All:

Hi All,

I heard this on the RCR podcast and checked it out. very interesting.

Probably more-so for our U.S. friends who can remember PLATO. 8-)

Check it out.

https://www.irata.online/

You will need a Plato compatible Terminal prog which you can get from the site.
Regards..Geo
ooooOOOOoooo

Also, were the old notesfiles from NovaNET ever archived? Or are they lost forever?

ps. I was informed a while back that the TI 99/4A was the only home computer that had standalone PLATO courseware, with the PLATO cartridge. Is this correct
, anyone? Were the Apple II, Atari, etc. PLATO packages terminal-based?



Greetings, James Digriz
email: jbdigriz@bbs.dragonsweb.org

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ps. I was informed a while back that the TI 99/4A was the only home computer that had standalone PLATO courseware, with the PLATO cartridge. Is this correct
, anyone? Were the Apple II, Atari, etc. PLATO packages terminal-based?

James, your name is familiar. On AtariAge? I've been trying to place your name as to either a caller of my BBS, the TI-99/4A Yahoogroup, AtariAge, or maybe just here on the Retronet.

I know the TI 99/4A had their standalone PLATO courseware. I did have an agreement with the owners of the PLATO software to legally distribute the
Plato diskettes online for a period of 10 years. That timeframe has since elapsed by three or four years if I am not mistaken. I just came across that paperwork this past week.

For people with young children, the PLATO courseware is a good way to
introduce them to a computer with some education software.

Beery

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Beery wrote to James Digriz:

ps. I was informed a while back that the TI 99/4A was the only home computer that had standalone PLATO courseware, with the PLATO

cartridge.

Is this correct
, anyone? Were the Apple II, Atari, etc. PLATO packages

terminal-based?

James, your name is familiar. On AtariAge? I've been trying to place
your
name as to either a caller of my BBS, the TI-99/4A Yahoogroup, AtariAge,
or
maybe just here on the Retronet.

I know the TI 99/4A had their standalone PLATO courseware. I did have an agreement with the owners of the PLATO software to legally distribute the Plato diskettes online for a period of 10 years. That timeframe has since elapsed by three or four years if I am not mistaken. I just came across that
paperwork this past week.

For people with young children, the PLATO courseware is a good way to introduce them to a computer with some education software.

Beery

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Yep, I've posted in all those places, and you're a user on my system. We discussed a TI FDN. even. I'm still up for participating in that if you're still interested.

You sound pretty busy. Maybe a good 3-day weekend is in order. :-)

ps did you ever hear back from 'ol John?

later,



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OK, I saw your tagline from Dragonsweb, now I remember.

Yes, I did hear back from John. I've left a few posts on a topic of "TI'er
in Need of Help" on Atariage. Sometime late May, I am going to take stuff
over to him. I've got someone sending me a PC to take to him so he can at least have a decent version of Windows where he can still do stuff with a browser. Having dial up access for him is pretty poor. I've got a USB modem
I am going to provide to him along with a USB drive with all kinds of software goodies including MAME and MESS.

He has such an old version of a web browser on his Windows system he can no longer order prescriptions, do anything with PayPal or Amazon, etc. because they all require a certain more recent browser version.

There is a Texas Instruments group now here on Retronet.

I'm presently waiting for the final pieces of the SMTP/POP server parts of Mystic BBS to be in place so I can complete an interface with the YahooGroup. I've already got comp.sys.ti. No way to tie AtariAge into it, and do not
think Greg would even want that to happen even if it were possible.

Beery

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Beery wrote to James Digriz:

OK, I saw your tagline from Dragonsweb, now I remember.

Yes, I did hear back from John. I've left a few posts on a topic of
"TI'er
in Need of Help" on Atariage. Sometime late May, I am going to take stuff over to him. I've got someone sending me a PC to take to him so he can at least have a decent version of Windows where he can still do stuff with a browser. Having dial up access for him is pretty poor. I've got a USB modem
I am going to provide to him along with a USB drive with all kinds of software
goodies including MAME and MESS.

I noticed one of John's posts in the Yahoo 9640 group that he says there is no wireless coverage where he is. I wonder if that's just his local telco, because the carrier that I, wearing a different hat, am a dealer for, uses the "Red" network, if you follow me, and their map says Indiana is almost completely covered, and mostly 4G. Can you confirm that there is definitely no wireless where he is, or netmail me an address so I can find out for sure?

He has such an old version of a web browser on his Windows system he can
no
longer order prescriptions, do anything with PayPal or Amazon, etc.
because
they all require a certain more recent browser version.

By all means I'd like to see him able to use the boards, and the rest of it.

There is a Texas Instruments group now here on Retronet.

Yep, and damned if I've figured out how to crosspost with MBSE's internal editor yet. I would like to see a TI file echos, too.

I'm presently waiting for the final pieces of the SMTP/POP server parts of Mystic BBS to be in place so I can complete an interface with the YahooGroup.
I've already got comp.sys.ti. No way to tie AtariAge into it, and do not think Greg would even want that to happen even if it were possible.

Anything to consolidate the community is great, if you ask me. It's a subject I'm studying keenly these days.




Greetings, James Digriz
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The issue with John's lack of wireless coverage is he apparently sits pretty deep between some hills. Had his elevation been higher, it would be
different.

I've got spots near where I live over here in Kentucky where there is no wireless coverage as well. While the rolling hills can be pretty, some of those areas can have blackout spots.

Beery

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Beery wrote to James Digriz:

The issue with John's lack of wireless coverage is he apparently sits pretty
deep between some hills. Had his elevation been higher, it would be different.

Bummer. Well, while you're there you can check it out. A signal booster might come in handy there, too. And gripe to the utility regulators in IN, about the crappy land-line, if nothing else.

I'm prepared to scare up a phone for him and cover the cost of the 1st month if
there's any way for him to get a reasonable signal.





Greetings, James Digriz
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Re: Re: Plato Online Again
By: James Digriz to Geo on Tue Apr 24 2018 08:15:46

Geo wrote to All:

Hi All,

I heard this on the RCR podcast and checked it out. very interesting.

Probably more-so for our U.S. friends who can remember PLATO. 8-)

Check it out.

https://www.irata.online/

You will need a Plato compatible Terminal prog which you can get from the site.

Kewl. What's the difference between irata.online and cyber1.org? Are they networked in any way?

I hate fragmentation in community-building.

Greetings, James Digriz
email: jbdigriz@bbs.dragonsweb.org

I think they may be connected, but have different interfaces.

The irata one has the really nice later PLATO interface rather than just the plain Amber interface of cyber1.


Regards..Geo
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Re: Re: Plato Online Again
By: James Digriz to Geo on Tue Apr 24 2018 08:43:04

Geo wrote to All:

Hi All,

I heard this on the RCR podcast and checked it out. very interesting.

Probably more-so for our U.S. friends who can remember PLATO. 8-)

Check it out.

https://www.irata.online/

You will need a Plato compatible Terminal prog which you can get from the site.
Regards..Geo
ooooOOOOoooo

Also, were the old notesfiles from NovaNET ever archived? Or are they lost forever?

ps. I was informed a while back that the TI 99/4A was the only home computer that had standalone PLATO courseware, with the PLATO cartridge. Is this correct
, anyone? Were the Apple II, Atari, etc. PLATO packages terminal-based?

Greetings, James Digriz
email: jbdigriz@bbs.dragonsweb.org

The Guy running the irata.online thing is actively seeking people to help with the building of clients for almost all the old micro's. He nearly has a C128 one ready, and is working on Atari and Amiga and others.

As for the content, I had a poke around and it seems to have A LOT of the old LABs and course material up there online too. Which is very neet.

8-)

Regards..Geo
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Geo wrote to James Digriz:

The Guy running the irata.online thing is actively seeking people to help with
the building of clients for almost all the old micro's. He nearly has a C128
one ready, and is working on Atari and Amiga and others.

As for the content, I had a poke around and it seems to have A LOT of the old
LABs and course material up there online too. Which is very neet.

8-)

Regards..Geo

I've since seen his posts on AtariAge, and also a post from someone who just got a lot of items that came from a former TI engineer which appears to include
an official TI 99/4A Plato Terminal Emulator. Very interesting.

Speaking of notesfiles, Ray Ozzie is in the news lately with his crypto proposal to allow one-shot unlocking of smartphones by the factory under court order, using a an encrypted PIN. It sounds workable, and it's a brilliant scheme, but it still seems to
me like key escrow by proxy. To me that's scary, especially when the proxy is public corp, in this day of secret courts and FISA
warrants for things that seem about as serious as, or as much of a threat to national security as, a pile of unpaid parking tickets.




Greetings, James Digriz
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I heard this on the RCR podcast and checked it out. very interesting.

Probably more-so for our U.S. friends who can remember PLATO. 8-)

I did a little poking around on IRATA a few weeks ago from my Apple IIe. I
need to check back in now that I have a slight amount more free time and I think I figured out why it was crashing at anything above 2400bps.

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