What's a reasonable price for a working VT05 in good working order and
cosmetic condition?
By "reasonable price" I don't want to hear stories about how you found
one for $5 at surplus 10 or more years ago. Its irrelevant. So before
you go on about how these things used to be commonplace and cheap/free,
let's just inject a little reality into the discussion.
They don't come up on ebay with any sort of regular frequency; in
several years of running a standard search for DEC terminals, its never
come up once. VT52s/VT78s rarely show up anywhere, while VT100s are
fairly common. I'm not even aware of many collectors that have one;
I know the Wofford Witch project has one, but I don't think Henk in
the Netherlands has one (he has a VT55 link, but no VT05). The
Computer History Museum appears to have two in its collection, but
that's no surprise considering they've received a lot of stuff from
Gordon Bell (as I understand it).
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