ANTIC Interview 465 - Vince Wu, The Learning Phone (Atari PLATO Terminal)

Podcast: ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast · Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

Vince Wu, The Learning Phone (Atari PLATO Terminal) Vince Wu worked at Atari for about two and a half years. He was the programmer of The Learning Phone, the PLATO terminal for Atari 8-bit computers. Before that, he worked with PLATO at the University of Illinois, then in California for Control Data Corporation. PLATO was the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system, a groundbreaking graphical client-server computer system aimed at education. To assist in this interview, I was joined by Thomas Cherryhomes and Michael Sternberg, who were on a road trip to a Vintage Computer Festival conference. In 2018, Tom Cherryhomes created IR...