Old Wyse terminal, worth keeping?

[bobotech]

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.

[Osgeld]

probably yes

[bobotech]

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.

[LoTonah]

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?)

[Omega-TI]

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.

[bkrownd]

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

[The Usotsuki]

I remember our libraries used to run their card catalogs off a *x and their terminals were Wyse boxen.

[RevEng]

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...

 

[jaybird3rd]

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.

[fibrewire]

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)