Nice! :) What is a Wyse?
Wyse (Wyse Technology) was started in the early 80's and are best known (to
e
anyway) for making dumb terminals. Dumb Terminals evolved over the years
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Thin (and zero) Clients. If you have no idea what that is, you've probably seen them in doctors offices and such. Tiny little computers... that don't do much more than provide a terminal to run applications which are stored and run on another computer.
I thought it was something I had heard of but couldn't place it. Back when
I worked at a library, and then again 20+ years ago when I first started
this job, we had dumb terminals so I am familiar. Not as familiar with the thin clients but I know what they are.
The ones I have are Wyse Cx0's. I paid $11 each off ebay, then another
8.99
for a larger flash hard drive. So for $20.99 (total cost, includes shipping
taxes) I have cute little computers that use next to no electricity that I've been having a blast playing with.
Are you limited as to what OSes you can run on them?
I'd love to have an old wyse dumb terminal... an old WY-50 or WY-60, if
ant
is reading this. :) It'd only be right that Wyse Guy of Wyse Guy BBS do his BBS'ing from one.... Just saying!
Yeah, I have some nostalgic feelings for them... I like the way the
terminal would click when you were typing on them... but I don't miss how
easy it was to lock one up. It made a lot of clicking when you did that. :)
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