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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:49:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I think this screen might have had a LITTLE bit of use in the past.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:50:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this one is on ebay. They want 200$ for a terminal with that much burn in, they don't even know if it works, and they don't have the matching keyboard (and wyse keyboards are model-specific)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:55:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Wyse terminals are all listed for like 200$-300$ on ebay. I don't really know WHY. They're not special in some way that other dumb terminals aren't, and half of these are missing keyboards (useless!) and/or have obvious deflection problems (at least one of them was shown TURNED ON while having failed deflection, which will damage it)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:56:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yet again I'm looking at something I want on ebay and going "why are these so expensive? no one wants this!"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:58:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     at the same time as all the 250$ broken ones (which often have another 100$ of shipping on them, which is Very Justified (IT'S A CRT FROM THE 80s: DO NOT SHIP IT CHEAPLY)), someone will be selling one for 200$ OBO but it's got a functional screen and an included keyboard.

     https://www.ebay.com/itm/166998811933

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 09:59:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my guess is that people selling these things are just searching ebay to see how much they sell for and they're all sniffing each others farts. Every person with a broken terminal is like "see? ebay says they're 200$" and those aren't selling.

   • RouseWorld (rouseworld@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 18:43:44 JST RouseWorld

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     @foone I do like these guys, I salvaged one from work when they switched to desktop PCs and I wished I grabbed more. Mine has a tiny amount of burn in and the keyboard has a few keys that are difficult to get a response from, but I’m going to be bummed when it finally fails.