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. He said there was a salvage sale coming up and to be there. 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.
