Richard wrote:
I'm looking for about 20-40 units of serial
terminal, with 20 being
the bare minimum that I need for the project. Realistically, spares
will be needed, so more than 20 units are preferred.
Any ideas on how to find something like this? Or do I
have to keep
waiting until noone is using terminals at all, not even in the 3rd
party market?
I'd look for somebody scrapping laptops. A 486 or early Pentium
system should have enough screen to be useful, battery life won't be an
issue, and one of the FreeOS families should have a terminal emulator to
suit you (or that can be altered to suit). I'll grant that a PeeCee
laptop doesn't have the panache of a nice VT320, but they're cheaper,
easier to find, and more compact.
One of the local liquidators just finished selling a run of early
Pentium Thinkpads that went for less than $20 each. Something like a
Toshiba would run about half that, and if you'd bought 40 of them you
might have gotten them for <$10.
Doc