bobotech Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I was at my old house cleaning it out today. One of the things in the basement that I decided to keep instead of tossing was an old Wyse serial terminal. I kept on bouncing back and fortth between "save or toss" and finally saved it. Its one of those old amber screen crt terminals. I actually wonder if I can use it with my ancient Northstar Horizon CP/M computer that I have never powered up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 probably yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobotech Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 But the key problem is that I have zero software for the Northstar. That is one of the reasons why I haven't bothered setting it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoTonah Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm That is home to a program called ImageDisk, as well as boot disks and application disks for the Northstar. All you need to find is a PC with 5.25" drives (maybe a buddy?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I was at my old house cleaning it out today. One of the things in the basement that I decided to keep instead of tossing was an old Wyse serial terminal. I kept on bouncing back and fortth between "save or toss" and finally saved it. Its one of those old amber screen crt terminals. If you have the room for it, it might make a decent conversation piece. Just slap a Lantronix UDS-10 on it's RS-232 port and you'll be able to cruise the BBS scene on it via the Internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkrownd Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) I gotta give a thumbs up to the good old Wyse! A Wyse was my desktop terminal 1993-1996, before I got bumped up to an XTerm. Great memories of e-mail, Gopher and endless hours reading USENET on the Wyse. Edited September 2, 2014 by bkrownd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I remember our libraries used to run their card catalogs off a *x and their terminals were Wyse boxen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I would be all over an old Wyse terminal. Throw a raspberry pi on the back with a bit of TTL level conversion, and I could totally impress the ladies with text based gaming, aalib movies and demos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I love Wyse terminals, especially ones with amber displays! I have a pair of WY-55 terminals, new in the box and with matching ANSI keyboards. I plan to set one of them up for writing in my study/library instead of a full PC, because a character-based terminal means fewer distractions and almost no maintenance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Tons of stuff one could do with a Wyse terminal. * Hook to a serial port or usb to serial port and connect to your Windows / Mac / Linux box and get a console. * connect a phone balun to each side and use it anywhere a phone jack is in the house. * connect to the serial ports on some old Motorola canopy 900mhz gear and put that console anywhere. * do all of the above and have a private console to your house from work. (May take some work on a punch down block) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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