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Advertisement of the PLATO touchscreen from Control Data

Item

Title
Advertisement of the PLATO touchscreen from Control Data
Description
Advertisement photograph of the PLATO touchscreen from Control Data. Caption reads: "A computer-based system, called Control Data PLATO, is offered by Control Data Corporation to help train engineers and support personnel in electric utilities engineering/operations programs. By merely touching the screen, users can answer questions or change parameters in a power system to study load flow, switching techniques, outages and other utility problems."
Date
1976
Identifier
p00350
cbi00446
Persistent URL
Provenance
University of Minnesota Libraries, Control Data Corporation Records
Format
8 x 10 inches
Black-and-white photographs
Contributor
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute
Subject
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)
Computer-Based Education
Plasma Display
Touchscreen
Computer Science
Coverage
Control Data Corporation
Temporal Coverage
1970s
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