A two page spread from the Planned Parenthood of Mid-Michigan 1991 Annual Report Booklet which lists clinic services, statistics, clinic locations, 5-year strategic plan, and messages from the Board President and Executive Director.
Photograph of a PLATO CRT terminal connected to a Revox projection system and tape records with a pair of hearing stethoscopes. A medical application is on the two screens.
Photograph of a woman next to a PLATO terminal displaying Real Time Simulation System graphics. Caption reads: "Control Data PLATO delivers instructional materials in the form of text, drawing and animated graphics via this interactive terminal. Users communicate with the lesson materials through the keyboard or by touching the screen. The terminal is designed to operate with multi-media devices such as printers, mark sense readers, audio-visual equipment and on-line data capturing devices."
Photograph of PLATO terminals in use at Minneapolis Business & Technical Center. From source description: "WCCO-TV recording Hennepin County election returns. Joe Sullivan, seated; Tom Burke, standing."
Timeline overview of PLATO events for the years covered in this archive. Some information is sourced from Van Meer's article "PLATO: From Computer-Based Education to Corporate Social Responsibility" linked below.
Photograph of a PLATO user part of Control Data's Homework program of disability outreach. The Homwork program provided PLATO terminals for disabled users to work on courses and programming from their home. From the original source (all spelling errors kept the same): "From January 6, 1980, Mpls. Tribune artice about Paulette Sands, who was afflicted with multiple sclerosis. Works on a PLATO termain from her Bloomington home. Photos, Inc print # 2-12319. Credit Minneapolis Tribune."
Photograph from a 1982 Control Data Corporation (CDC) advertisement for PLATO educational software including math, computer literacy, physics and foreign language courses
Photograph from a 1983 Control Data Corporation (CDC) advertisement for PLATO educational software including math, computer literacy, physics and foreign language courses
