I ended up getting a job at Data General, because DEC wasn't hiring when I got out of school, but I still have my DEC badge (#47349) and a PiDP-8/I emulator running down here in the basement office. That terminal served me well and ended up in some lab at MIT when I put it up for sale. So I had some *very* thin solder, and I'd heat up the pins, one by one, and slip the solder between the connector pins until it flowed onto the pin I was heating, thence to the inaccessible etch on the backplane itself! What I remember most, was the quad module backplane had been built with no connection between the top and bottom layers of the backplane. I spent the next semester in the EE lab at school fixing it (I had all the schematics, natch). When I got there, there was a complete parts kit for a VT05. Besides that, the app allows logging into Mac Unix Shell, if there is a need. He said there was a salvage sale coming up and to be there. MacWise is a minimalistic Mac OS Terminal emulator designed to work with a large number of different protocols, connection modes (serial / modem, telnet, secure shell, or even Kermit), and can emulate a wide range of terminals, including Prism, TV925, VT100, VT220, Viewpoint, Wyse 50, Wyse 60, Wyse 370. I mentioned to one of the lead tech's that I was looking for a terminal. Westfield was also building LA36 DECwriters and VT78? terminals. I was a summer replacement tech on the RK06 production line.
