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From: cc@wet.UUCP (Christopher Cilley)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: need a used vt100
Summary: surplus at most major universities
Keywords: terminals cheap
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Date: 18 Jan 90 16:06:03 GMT
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In article <1779@rodan.acs.syr.edu> japullin@rodan.acs.syr.edu
(Pullin) writes:
>I am interested in getting a computer terminal, anything that could
>appropriately emulate a vt100 would work. Where can one find something
>by the like at a low cost?  I imagine there are a lot of these kind 
>of devices being dumped by universities which upgrade systems. Is there
>any place that sells them used?

Speaking for UC- San Francisco and University of Michigan, both large
schools...  They each had surplus outlets of their own.

At UCSF's I've bought 2 z29s and a couple of h19s.  The z29s were $50 and
the h19s went for $20.  They had everything there from wheelchairs (it's a
big med school) to vt100s, old printers to filing cabinets.

I think if you call the school you might find they have a surplus outlet.
If nothing else, you could try and talk to the resellers themselves and
find out what happens to it.  There's a fair amount of turnover in
terminals I believe.
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