FSU PLATO runs on a mainframe emulation so you need a special terminal, or terminal emulator, to access it. Pterm is the terminal emulator program developed by various individuals over the years. Due to the vintage of the PLATO networking protcol on the FSU PLATO system, you must use a version of Pterm 4.17 or older and you must connect on 'classic' port 5004. |
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Click to download install_pterm417.dmg. This is a disk image which contains a standard installer package.
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Click to download install_pterm417.exe. This is a typical Windows installer package, just download/save first, then run. |
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If you cannot connect, check firewall settings. Typical routers will permit outbound connections, but the default settings on some software firewalls do restrict outgoing traffic on unknown ports. So check port 5004. |
