15 Apr
2014
15 Apr
'14
8:41 a.m.
On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:07 AM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 4/14/2014 1:45 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Actually, it?s worth on the market what the market will pay for it, if anything. Old
prices are utterly irrelevant.
I?m not sure about Bill?s comment that "it is one of the most sought after terminals
that a serious collector could actually acquire.? If I were looking for a PLATO terminal,
the last place I would look is the CDC ISTs. Those were always weird mongrels. ?Real
PLATO terminals have plasma panels.? :-)
By the way, while the main use for such a terminal is on a PLATO system, of course, the
protocol is not all that complex, though it is entirely non-standard. It could certainly
be used as a graphics terminal on some other system, SMOP.
paul
On Apr 14, 2014, at 3:03 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
OH wait. I forgot that money is worth less than it was in the mid 1970's. I think we
need to remember that old iron does not come for a
song, and good price list is need to get what the true worth of a item is on the market.
On 4/14/2014 11:42 AM, Richard wrote:
Sure. But not today. And certainly not for a dumb-ish terminal, which is what this is.
(text plus graphics, admittedly, but dumb in the sense that the hard work is done at the
host.)
paul In article <E1WW7qw-0002aT-09 at
shell.xmission.com>,
Richard <legalize at xmission.com> writes:
> I know they're hard to find, but $1,500? Seems a little nuts to me.
Now the thing is listed with no reserve, but the reserve price is
$1,500 + shipping, so.....
Currently priced at $CRAZY, may be re-listed at some point in the
future at $RATIONAL.
Was not $1500 a good price for usable computer in the late 1970's,
floppy, printer and more that 16k memory?