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  • Late 1950s: Control Systems Laboratory at Illinois sought to mesh digital with learning

    Nov 27, 2017 12:15 pm by NatureIllinois in the News
    campus archive photo of students at early PLATO computer terminals

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    • campus archive photo of students at early PLATO computer terminals

    Nature (Nov. 22) PLATO, the first generalized computer-assisted instruction system, was an early demonstration of time-sharing, networking - a 'prescient but doomed 1960s US computer network'