Richard wrote:
This VT50 needs rescuing!
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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 ....)
Antonio