Advertisement of the PLATO touchscreen from Control Data

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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