I've been going through the ongoing process of moving my collection in the new house from the garage to their permanent storage area in the basement. I came across my TI-99/4a PLATO stuff today. No games in there and no indication in the literature that they ever did release any of the games for the micro versions of PLATO. This was heavy duty educational content for all grade levels and all subjects. Expensive stuff too. Individual lesson modules cost from $40 - $400+, with bundles going for over $1000. I can see why this never would have caught on outside of school systems (and even in school systems, who would have had the budget?). Also, it indicates interpreters were for the TI-99/4a, C-64, IBM PC and Apple II, as well as other popular platforms. Again, though, no evidence in the literature that they were currently offering anything for other than those computers. Here's a pic of my PLATO collection:
I've been going through the ongoing process of moving my collection in the new house from the garage to their permanent storage area in the basement. I came across my TI-99/4a PLATO stuff today. No games in there and no indication in the literature that they ever did release any of the games for the micro versions of PLATO. This was heavy duty educational content for all grade levels and all subjects. Expensive stuff too. Individual lesson modules cost from $40 - $400+, with bundles going for over $1000. I can see why this never would have caught on outside of school systems (and even in school systems, who would have had the budget?). Also, it indicates interpreters were for the TI-99/4a, C-64, IBM PC and Apple II, as well as other popular platforms. Again, though, no evidence in the literature that they were currently offering anything for other than those computers. Here's a pic of my PLATO collection: