PLATO has has a long but ambiguous history with gaming. It played a lot like the much more modern Dungeon Hack with a single player wandering the dungeon facing a series of random monsters with random treasures. I actually played pedit5 a lot in fall of 1975 before being subverted to the face to face version of DnD. However, after the publication of that book "Rusty" sent an email to author which is reproduced here He suggested an alternate book "Dungeons and Desktops" which might have more details, unfortunately in it pedit5 is dismissed as ephemeral and not well documented. When I voiced my complaint on the blog of holding, I was surprised when the author of the book responded in person. However that is price one pays for not writing stuff down. Just finished reading Playing at the World by Was a little miffed that he missed crediting the pedit5 PLATO program which my buddy Rusty Rutheford at University of Illinois wrote, and only mentions the PLATO DnD program (which sounds very much like pedit5) being observed by an anonymous source at Cornell instead.
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