29 May
2009
29 May
'09
2:55 p.m.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
This was nearly 25 years ago, FWIW (and, yes, I still have it)... the
VT220 was out, and those that bought new, bought that. Those that
didn't, bought VT100s or some functional clone (CiTOH 101, Wyse-50,
etc). It was the nadir of the VT52. Nobody wanted them, nobody
wanted to support them (software or hardware).
It was a function of exactly how old they were - old enough, but not too old.
The cheapest solution at
the time was to get a real VT52 (about $50 to buy and $30 to ship).
That's what I did.
Oh if only I could find a $50 VT52 in this day and age! :^) Actually, I've never seen one for sale in all the
time I've been
interested in old computers (starting in 1993). ?How common are they
these days? ?On a scale from "Hen's teeth" to ?"unobtanium"?
Dunno. I got one in a rescue a few years back, but I haven't tried to
buy one since about 1985 or so. I don't need lots of them, but the
one I got looks really nice on my Datasystems Desk (the model on the
cover of the 1978/1979 Small Computer Handbook).
-ethan