Gary Michael of Duosoft, a PLATO courseware development and computing company.
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Title
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Gary Michael of Duosoft, a PLATO courseware development and computing company.
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Description
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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.
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Date
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circa 1981
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Provenance
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Michael Family Person Archive
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Format
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scan of film photograph
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Contributor
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Mary Ellen Michael
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Jeff Michael
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Subject
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PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)
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Control Data Corporation
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Computer Science
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Computer-Based Education
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Computing History
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Disabilities in Computing
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Coverage
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Duosoft
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Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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Temporal Coverage
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1980s
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Rights
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All rights reserved by the Michael family.
