Gary Michael of Duosoft, a PLATO courseware development and computing company.
Item
- Title
- Gary Michael of Duosoft, a PLATO courseware development and computing company.
- Description
- Photograph of co-founders Gary Michael (l) and Michael Barr (r) of Duosoft, an Urbana-Champaign based hardware and software start-up that developed and programmed PLATO courseware for Control Data Corporation from 1981-1985. Mostly paralyzed from youth due to polio, Gary Michael (left) was a handicapped PLATO programmer who used a mouth stick to code and interact through the PLATO system.
- Date
- circa 1981
- Provenance
- Michael Family Person Archive
- Format
- scan of film photograph
- Contributor
- Mary Ellen Michael
- Jeff Michael
- Subject
- PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)
- Control Data Corporation
- Computer Science
- Computer-Based Education
- Computing History
- Disabilities in Computing
- Coverage
- Duosoft
- Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
- Temporal Coverage
- 1980s
- Rights
- All rights reserved by the Michael family.
