Don North wrote: It's most definitely not the only working one in the world, since I have a working one. If anyone wants to post that as a "question" on that auction, feel free. If I didn't have one, and really really really wanted one, I could maybe see paying $1500-2K for one.

--- On Sat, 6/25/11, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote: I don't know what's funnier - the fact he's trying to sell the terminal for $250k, or the fact that he can't even be bothered to take a picture of it, and has to take one from the vt100.net (which, I believe came from some DEC marketing stuff originally). See, I don't know what possesses people to post auctions like this. It sure seems like a scam of some kind (the account hasn't been used in over a year, etc), but at the same time... if you're going to scam something, you'd think you'd post something (at some price) that someone, somewhere, is liable to purchase... -Ian

On 26/06/11 16:43, William Donzelli wrote: I wonder how much PR I could drum up if I listed a couple of DiscFerrets for a couple of thousand quid each.... *GRIN* -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/

I wrote: Richard wrote: Well, you "would really like one", but obviously you don't "really really really want one". If I wanted to collect terminals, some that I'd want would be: CDC Plato IV terminal IBM 2250 (any model) IBM 2741 Lear Siegler ADM3 (not 3A) Sanders Associates (any model, but especially the CRT display models) SRI NLS terminal Tektronix 4010, 4012, or 4014 Teleray 1061 Teletype Model 37 Teletype Model 38