DEC GT40 original list price?

From: Jay Jaeger <cube_at_msn.fullfeed.com>
Date: Sun Oct 3 10:21:01 1999

Oh, and "MOON LANDER PROGRAM" was *explicity* written on the requisition...
 8-)

At 10:18 AM 10/3/99 -0500, classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu wrote:
>The information I have indicates that the University of Wisconsin paid
$10,200 for one in 1975. But that was a bid, and the quote returned
indicated that it was a GT40-AA "Demonstrator Model". So, it was probably
not new, and was presumably discounted. I actually obtained that machine
later on, and restored it.
>
>By the way, I am curious where you got your lander program... I ask
because a few years back, I contacted Jack (via a pointer from the Computer
Museum in Boston), and what he had was a 9 -Track tape that he had gotten
from someone who had preserved a copy while he was at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He sent me the tape, and I read it and returned the
contents to him, including the lander program, some demo programs, etc.
>
>Jay Jaeger
>
>At 09:07 AM 10/3/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>Does anyone happen to recall the original price of the DEC GT40
>>graphics terminal? I'm exhibiting one at the VCF, running the
>>famouus Lunar Lander game by Jack Burness, and several people have
>>asked me what the terminal originally sold for.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Eric
>>
>>http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/dec/gt40/
>>
>
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