Pity you don't go West as well, I'm in Portland Oregon but maybe something could be worked out. When not in a rush I've been able to arrange back seat/trunk shipments.
Sounds like the same. I was at company called Tektronix and I was the one to introduce the CIT-101. We bought a lot of DEC gear, and even shipped a product with a rebranded PDP11/40, at one time were one of DEC's largest buyers of PDP's. One would think that would get us a good discount. One day the VT-101 started to die, at the same time I needed some DL11W's, so I added the VT100 to the request for quote. The discount on the VT was something like $25, basically nothing. And then out of nowhere, I get a letter from a friend who had gone to work for a small contract engineering company and he tells me he's been working on the firmware for VT100 clone. Anyway not long after that I had a loaner from C Itoh, and arranged a demo. I requested a quote for 25 CIT-101's and can't remember but damn close to 1/2 of what DEC was charging for theirs. When DEC found out they were not very happy. BTW Technical Magic was formed to make Video Games. On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Ethan Dicks <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Pete Lancashire > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rather have a C Itoh CT-101e .. > > I can probably help with that. I'm in Ohio and I get out to Chicago > and NJ a couple of times a year. I have a cabinet of CiTOH terminals > I bought from my employer "some years ago". ;-) We used an > assortment of DEC VT10x, VT220, CiTOH 101 and CiTOH 101e terminals. > ISTR the CiTOHs were as much as $800 cheaper than DEC terminals at the > time. They were robust and at one point, I pulled out of the manuals > the magic escape sequence to "switch sessions" and use the local > printer port as a second comms line (we just had to bang out a custom > DB25 adapter since the entire company was standardized on Nevada > Western 6p6c modular serial and we didn't have a box of the right > adapters for the printer port). It was awesome having two live lines > in front of our usual switchbox setup for connecting to multiple > hosts. > >> ... knew one of the developers > > Neat! > >> F/W was done in the US I can no longer remember the key combination but the >> terminal would let you know who did it > > That would be fun to look up. > >> Anyone wants to gain a cubic foot or two let me know > > You got it! > > -ethan >
