Selling keyboards without the terminal

On 10/20/18 10:05 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: I don't see it happening, unless someone turns up a warehouse full of the things cheap to drive supply up. All I hear about are guys with warehouses scrapping CRTs, and those are 80's & 90's commodity ASCII terminals. The only terminal keyboards still turning up in volume are Wyse because the rest were junk that got flaky 10+ years ago. Beanie Babies were sold as collectables, and millions were made. CRT terminals aren't collectable. You don't flip them. There are a handful of interest to collectors, like VT100s. Before Hercules, no one cared about CU terminals because there was nothing you could do with them without the knowledge of the care and feeding of IBM big iron. Even twinax was pretty out there. Only 'corestore' ever showed much of anything in that world. So now, all of that is pretty much obsolete and getting thrown out by the warehouse load. Hell, even I ended up with 10 3191 terminals recently because they would have been tossed. Because of my job, I have to think about what the museum needs to collect at the bottom of the supply bathtub curve, and I get nervous when things start to come up on the tail side.