31 Oct
2006
31 Oct
'06
6:07 p.m.
In article <002c01c6fd3d$aba53080$5b01a8c0 at uatempname>,
<arcarlini at iee.org> writes:
I'm nowhere near (not even the right continent
:-)) but I see this:
CASE #: 8032266186S016
ITEM: TERMINAL, DATA PROCESSING MFG: DIGITAL
EQUIPMENT CORP Model #: VT50AA
DESCRIPTION: POC KEN LEE 6X4766/G21053
SERIAL#: 20516NX MFG YEAR: 1986 CONDITION:
REPAIRABLE
Now "MFG YEAR" of 1986 sounds way too late. Surely the VT100s would have
driven the VT5x stuff off customer radar by then? Was DEC really still
making VT5x terminals this late in the day? (I wouldn't be at all
surprised to know that they were supported a long time beyond that
date - for a fee! - but I'm having a hard time believing that they
were made and sold in 1986 ....)
I doubt that as well, but I've found that these surplus property
auction places *rarely* have accurate information about the items.
Some poor schmuck is paid minimum wage to enter all the data about all
this junked property into a database. What do they care if its
accurate? It could be 1976 instead of 1986 and what would they care?
By 1979 I remember that the VT5x was becoming rare and the VT100 was
becoming the dominant model. VT100.net says the VT52 was introduced
in 1975 and the VT100 introduced in 1978.
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