VT100's

[steven at malikoff.com]

Will said
>> Compared to many of the others available at the time, it seemed to me to be:
>>
>> 1.  expensive
>
> Keep in mind that this is largely irrelevant. Terminals were often
> used as bargaining chips when large systems were purchased. Salesmen
> could "throw in" some number of terminals with a system, in order to
> make a sale. If a business was being hard-nosed about the sale of
> potential large VAX system, the salesmen could perhaps "sweeten" the
> deal with ten or twenty bonus VT100s, free. All the profit was in the
> CPUs, or more importantly, in the disk and tape farms (or to be really
> fair about this, the service).


Along that line, here is a page from a DEC sales catalog offering VT52's with "It's cheaper by the 4-pack":
http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/500/VT52_4-pack.jpg

Steve