10 Oct
2001
10 Oct
'01
2:08 p.m.
Post a digital pic on your webpage so we can look
'n' see?
Ok... pics are up (sorry, no risque terminal pics).
Go to <http://www.mythtech.net/terminal>
There are two terms there. One is a Wyse something (maybe a 60 based on
pics I just saw on ebay). The other is a Qume, that I am fairly certain
is a Qume QVT-108 (seeing as that is silk screened on the main board).
Both have some kind of a daughter card. Are the cards normal or are they
some custom programmable thing to give the terminal special abilities for
its used application.
The Wyse terminal is from an Isoetec EZ-1/66 phone system. The Qume is
from an Isoetec EZ-1/96 system.
If people can ID these, are there any recommendations as to where to get
these terminals CHEAP (I saw some Wyse 60's on ebay for about $40, but I
can't find any Qume QVT-108s). If terminals aren't available, does anyone
have a recommendation of emulation software I can run.
Thanks muchly
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
10 Oct
10 Oct
3:53 p.m.
Chris said:
That definitly looks like a WY-60 to me; we used to have them at a public
library I worked at in high school :) Don't know about the daughter card
though...
Post a digital
pic on your webpage so we can look 'n' see?
Ok... pics are up (sorry, no risque terminal pics).
Go to <http://www.mythtech.net/terminal>
There are two terms there. One is a Wyse something (maybe a 60 based on
pics I just saw on ebay). The other is a Qume, that I am fairly certain
is a Qume QVT-108 (seeing as that is silk screened on the main board).
Both have some kind of a daughter card. Are the cards normal or are they
some custom programmable thing to give the terminal special abilities for
its used application.
The Wyse terminal is from an Isoetec EZ-1/66 phone system. The Qume is
from an Isoetec EZ-1/96 system.
If people can ID these, are there any recommendations as to where to get
these terminals CHEAP (I saw some Wyse 60's on ebay for about $40, but I
can't find any Qume QVT-108s). If terminals aren't available, does anyone
have a recommendation of emulation software I can run.
Thanks muchly
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
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(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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5 p.m.
The Wyse terminal is from an Isoetec EZ-1/66 phone system. The Qume is
from an Isoetec EZ-1/96 system.
If people can ID these, are there any recommendations as to where to get
these terminals CHEAP (I saw some Wyse 60's on ebay for about $40, but I
can't find any Qume QVT-108s). If terminals aren't available, does anyone
have a recommendation of emulation software I can run.
5:15 p.m.
Chris skrev:
>Post a digital pic on your webpage so we can look
'n' see?
Ok... pics are up (sorry, no risque terminal pics).
Go to <http://www.mythtech.net/terminal>
If people can ID these, are there any recommendations
as to where to get
these terminals CHEAP (I saw some Wyse 60's on ebay for about $40, but I
can't find any Qume QVT-108s). If terminals aren't available, does anyone
have a recommendation of emulation software I can run.
It looks identical superficially to my WY60. Though yours is much whiter on
the picture. Mine is grey, much the same kind of grey as Atari STs.
It seems that WYSEs are notorious for being frail. There is WYSE emulation
software available, but at a cost.
Speaking of WY60s, mine refuses to use eight-bit characters. It's stuck in
ISO-646-SE mode, which is a bit of a bother. The "propeller" when NetBSD is
loading goes: ?/-??/-??/-??/-, or something like that. And so on. Is it
intrinsically stuck in its 80s mode or what?
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7:09 p.m.
On 11-Oct-2001 Iggy Drougge wrote:
It seems that WYSEs are notorious for being frail.
My wyse 85 seems to be robust. I hope it doesn't die, because I *heart*
the thing!
There is WYSE emulation software available, but at a
cost.
Linux has a wyse60 termcap entry, but that's not really what you want.
-Philip
11 Oct
11 Oct
6:04 a.m.
gwynp skrev:
On 11-Oct-2001 Iggy Drougge wrote:
> It seems that WYSEs are notorious for being frail.
My wyse 85 seems to be robust. I hope it doesn't
die, because I *heart*
the thing!
My WY60 works fine, too, but it seems that we've been lucky, compared to what
you might find in the big chunk of WYSE messages at
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html.
> There is WYSE emulation software available, but at
a cost.
Linux has a wyse60 termcap entry, but that's not
really what you want.
So has NetBSD. It doesn't bother about such things as charset mappings.
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En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
We have support for the PMAGC-B's on pmax right? That is a PixelVision based
card right? I see Bt 463, that chip looks bigger than the 21164! Just looking
at it makes me want to write an Xserver!
Chris Tribo, NetBSD/pmax
10:07 a.m.
My WY60 works fine, too, but it seems that we've
been lucky, compared to what
you might find in the big chunk of WYSE messages at
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html.
I was sure I had a pair of WYSE 60 terminals, but I dug one out last night
and its a 160, about 5 years newer.
11:27 a.m.
On 11-Oct-2001 Iggy Drougge wrote:
gwynp skrev:
403 forbidden
I figure that while maybe most wyse terminals died easily, those that were
going to die already have. And all these years later, only the hardy ones
have survived.
-Philip
On 11-Oct-2001 Iggy Drougge wrote:
> It seems that WYSEs are notorious for being frail.
My wyse 85 seems to be robust. I hope it
doesn't die, because I *heart*
the thing!
My WY60 works fine, too, but it seems that we've been lucky, compared to
what you might find in the big chunk of WYSE messages at
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html.
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