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