Wow, Telidon - I figured I was the only person who remembered that system. I would play with the Telidon kiosk at the local mall, and I think there was also a c

Wow, Telidon - I figured I was the only person who remembered that system. I would play with the Telidon kiosk at the local mall, and I think there was also a cable channel broadcasting weather data from Telidon. One problem was it was extremely slow, drawing images at literally 2 polygons per second, so you had to be really patient as it drew, say, a cloud on the weather report. Also, the content on the interactive terminal was pretty uninteresting, stuff like find out about your local government agencies and watch for 20 seconds as it draws their logo. There wasn't any cool art like the article describes. While the Telidon concept appealed to me, the actual system was kind of awful and I'd head down the mall to Radio Shack and hack on a TRS-80 instead. As far as early interactive systems of the 70s/80s, does anyone remember PLATO? I only got to try it once, but it was a super-cool interactive plasma touch-screen system with awesome software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)