> 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). -- Will
