The WY-55 Terminal

[@sneedsfeedandseed7777]

one of my terminals (a 1973 ADDS Consul 980) uses Cherry's first switches from when they were still based in Waukegan Illinois. they feel pretty good too

[@waynesthename5453]

I used to work with a company in the early 2000’s. They maintain cash registers which used WY 60s and, old business systems. They use these as terminals and the head end servers were regular 386’s, 486’s and early Pentiums running UNIX. Some companies ran these systems for 20 to 30 years

[@metatechnologist]

Blockbuster did lol

[@mwethereld]

ahhh memories. i have 2 wyse 65 terminals used at an airport. bit of fun to play with today

[@Chevroletcelebrity]

can i have them?

[@henrikgustav2294]

just got two of these, WY-120 model. still waiting for null modem cable. if your terminal is not connected to the server, what do you see ? Because in WY-60 manual, it says it has some basic tools like text editor and calculator

[@cosmic-fortytwo]

4:22 man cat No really. Try it. Man gets you the manual for any command. Cat is short for concatenation by the way, so it means to join things together. In this case cat is used to piece text files together, such as: cat this.txt that.txt

[@markgreen2170]

lol! "if cat did anything..." cool video.

[@liamwatson5125]

Terminals beeped whenever you typed.

[@leandrotami]

Could you please elaborate on how you interfaced the terminal with the other computer? Is it through a standard RS232? What command did you use in the main computer to make available a terminal through the serial port?

[@Alpine_Wanderer]

Hey man! I just found one of these too. What the hell is it? Like what are some things I can use it for. I don't even really know what to plug it in too. It seems like a waste to just throw it out. Mine doesn't have a keyboard either. If I can find a good reason to buy the key board.. I'd like to keep it.

[@alanbourke4069]

What I used these for in the early 90s was as terminals for a PC running Concurrent DOS. So you'd have that 'big' PC, an external board with 16 serial connectors, and then cable to the Wyse terminals. Basically a cheap and nasty network. You could have 16 people running Wordperfect 5.1 in a sort of thin client way under Concurrent DOS.

[@SilverSpoon_]

somebody offered me a Wyse 120 terminal, a shiny black and white wyse, with that delicious mechanical keyboard ( also with a SELECT key ) it was a great machine and this is how I learned how serial/UART terminals worked, by testing out and plugging it in on my shitty PC that ran Linux. Oh yes, it's working, I could use a few linux commands, re-install graphics drivers of my early Radeon graphics using this terminal, and use it on a separate desk to chat on IRC with it, in the end this thing was a machine dedicated for IRC chatting while the main screen was for the web and stuff. I should find one on eBay. had one, it was kind of broken and I had to trash it when we moved away.

[@flleeppyy9959]

green is a good color c:

[@KnucklesARouge]

mewow

[@Joel-ew1zm]

WY-50 series are 100% better machines than current dell wyse thin clients

[@thumb6170]

i just got one on ebay