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Student using the PLATO III terminal with monitor and keyboard

Item

Title
Student using the PLATO III terminal with monitor and keyboard
Description
Photograph of a student user seated at a monitor and keyboard comprising a student terminal of the PLATO III educational computer system. From the original caption: "This PLATO III student terminal is being used to display the population growth curve for given birth and death rates. The PLATO System of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory has been programmed to teach subjects ranging from nursing to elementary school mathematics. Remote student terminals are connected to the central computer by wide-band telephone lines and can be located wherever the instruction is to be given."
Date
1970
Identifier
0006965
Provenance
University of Illinois Archives. Found in Computer Science Photograph File, 1949-2004 RS 11/15/10, Box 1
Format
TIFF
Subject
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)
Computer-Based Education
Computer Science
Coverage
Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory (CERL)
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Temporal Coverage
1952-1974
Twentieth Century
Rights
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