Name: plato-pterm Version: 5.0.6 Release: 3%{?dist} Summary: Connect to PLATO servers like Cyber1 with the PTerm program License: BSD-4-Clause URL: http://www.cyber1.org/pterm.asp Source0: http://www.cyber1.org/download/linux/pterm-linux-v5.0.6.tar.bz2 BuildRequires: wxGTK3-devel BuildRequires: SDL-devel BuildRequires: SDL2-devel BuildRequires: libsndfile-devel BuildRequires: python BuildRequires: glibc-devel BuildRequires: gcc-c++ BuildRequires: subversion Requires: wxGTK3 Requires: SDL Requires: SDL2 Requires: libsndfile %description PLATO is a computer-based educational system created at the University of Illinois Control Systems Laboratory. The idea was first discussed at the University in 1959, in a long series of meetings led by Chalmers Sherwin. At these meetings it was concluded that computer-based education should not be pursued. However, the director at the time, Daniel Alpert, got together with Donald Bitzer to see if Don could quickly come up with a prototype that could serve as proof-of-concept. This prototype, running on an Illiac-I, became PLATO. The project was subsequently funded in 1960 by government money from the Joint Services Program. The lab grew and became the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL). PLATO eventually spawned a variety of commercial ventures, starting in 1975 with Control Data Corporation (CDC), a mainframe computer manufacturer founded in 1957. One of the branches of the PLATO tree became CYBIS, a product of VCampus; another branch is owned by PLATO Learning, the company that retains the right to the PLATO name; a third became NovaNET, now owned by Pearson Education. Another system, cyber1.org, is a branch off of the CYBIS tree. Install plato-pterm if you would like to access a PLATO server. You may be able to request a sign-on from Cyber1.org for their system. %prep %setup -q -n pterm-5.0.6 %build PATH=/usr/libexec/wxGTK3:$PATH make %{?_smp_mflags} %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/{bin,share/{applications,appdata,doc/plato-pterm}} cp pterm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/plato-pterm cat < $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/applications/plato-pterm.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=PLATO Terminal Comment=Terminal for connecting to a PLATO server Keywords=shell;prompt;command;commandline; TryExec=plato-pterm Exec=plato-pterm Icon=utilities-terminal Type=Application Categories=TerminalEmulator; X-GNOME-SingleWindow=true EOF gzip -9 -c < $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/appdata/plato-pterm.appdata.gz plato-pterm.desktop BSD-style BSD-4-Clause PLATO Terminal Terminal for connecting to a PLATO server

PLATO is a computer-based educational system created at the University of Illinois Control Systems Laboratory. The idea was first discussed at the University in 1959, in a long series of meetings led by Chalmers Sherwin. At these meetings it was concluded that computer-based education should not be pursued. However, the director at the time, Daniel Alpert, got together with Donald Bitzer to see if Don could quickly come up with a prototype that could serve as proof-of-concept. This prototype, running on an Illiac-I, became PLATO. The project was subsequently funded in 1960 by government money from the Joint Services Program. The lab grew and became the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL). PLATO eventually spawned a variety of commercial ventures, starting in 1975 with Control Data Corporation (CDC), a mainframe computer manufacturer founded in 1957.

One of the branches of the PLATO tree became CYBIS, a product of VCampus; another branch is owned by PLATO Learning, the company that retains the right to the PLATO name; a third became NovaNET, now owned by Pearson Education. Another system, cyber1.org, is a branch off of the CYBIS tree.

Install plato-pterm if you would like to access a PLATO server. You may be able to request a sign-on from Cyber1.org for their system.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b0KVRVnfS-M/UIYEWIT6BeI/AAAAAAAAABk/YMb3HxG4Mcs/s1600/EyeQ.png An example lesson in the PLATO system http://www.cyber1.org/images/realthing/0972501-R1-004-0A.jpg An actual PLATO terminal (that this program emulates) http://www.cyber1.org/pterm.asp
EOF cp CHANGES-pterm.txt $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/doc/plato-pterm/ cp license.txt $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/doc/plato-pterm/ %files /usr/bin/plato-pterm /usr/share/appdata/plato-pterm.appdata.gz /usr/share/applications/plato-pterm.desktop %doc /usr/share/doc/plato-pterm/CHANGES-pterm.txt %doc /usr/share/doc/plato-pterm/license.txt %changelog * Mon Jul 13 2015 Bruce-Robert Fenn Pocock - Initial packaging for Fedora 22 from Cyber1.org sources