I'm looking for about 20-40 units of serial terminal, with 20 being
the bare minimum that I need for the project. Realistically, spares
will be needed, so more than 20 units are preferred.
A more modern vintage preferred. Something reliable. All units
should be the same color (amber/green) phosphor and have the same size
CRT. In this particular situation I'm looking for something cheap,
cheap, cheap, not something collectible.
They will be repurposed as functioning components in a large rack-mount
project I'm working on.
Originally I was going to do this with a bunch of old PCs, but only
recently it occurred to me that using a bunch of say Wyse 50 terminals
would be a better solution.
I'm thinking someplace like a bank or whatnot that replaces all of its
serial terminals with PCs in an upgrade and dumps them all at once.
I see *tons* of palettes of VGA monitors these days, but rarely do I
see palettes of terminals and the onesy-twosy places are still
catering to a replacement market so they charge an arm and a leg.
Any ideas on how to find something like this? Or do I have to keep
waiting until noone is using terminals at all, not even in the 3rd
party market?
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