I felt like doing some research tonight, and managed to find a bit of history about this terminal. It does appear to be a BCRU211G-001 model, which were part of the Honeywell Test Instruments lineup. This was a distinct division in Honeywell, and had their own set of terminals completely unique to mostly scientific and military applications. From what I could find, they were only produced in Littleton CO between 1979 and ~1984, with most labeled as BTRM and BCRU series. They were most likely originally sold as part of larger DST/500 (Distributed Systems Terminal) and later Multics DPS8 systems.
This tiny label is the only clear giveaway to tell them apart, note the "ti":
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I can imagine most of these have long since fallen off.
The VIP (Visual Information Projection) series came first, and was produced by the Honeywell Information Systems factories from 1971 onward starting with the 765, 775, and 785 series. These terminals were for general enterprise applications, and manufactured through the 782x series of 1986, when the HDS (Honeywell Display System) replaced them.
Confusingly, towards the end they marketed both lineups as general enterprise level systems in their catalogues and brochures. Here's some cool pictures I found from a 1982 brochure:
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