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I had an amber WYSE serial terminal for a while in the mid 2000's that someone gave me new-in-box. I remember three things about it: 1. It had a sharp display
by bityard 3y ago
I had an amber WYSE serial terminal for a while in the mid 2000's that someone gave me new-in-box. I remember three things about it:
1. It had a sharp display and came with some fonts that were truly beautiful compared to the typical 80-column PC font.
2. It had a DB-25 serial port.
3. The keyboard was an absolute piece of garbage.
- IIsi50MHz 3y agoWe had WYSE dumb-terminals with orange plasma displays in my high school, with an empty slot to upgrade them to smart terminals. The keyboards were very reliable. They saw a lot of use for "WordPerfect 1.0 for UNIX". The most unfortunate thing was that if you didn't stagger logins, the poor little minicomputer they talked to would slow to a crawl. Try getting 40 people to sign in at once, and the mini would became unresponsive for all or most of a 45 minute class period. But groups of five, and you could get ~50 people signed-in in few minutes.