17 Feb
2026
17 Feb
'26
11:09 p.m.
A buddy of mine showed off his Wyse 520 and was wondering if anyone on here
has one and if you use it. It's a nice looking keyboard but I'm not that
fond of the small screen.
Daniel
sysop | Air & Wave BBS
finger | calcmandan(a)bbs.erb.pw
18 Feb
18 Feb
12:33 a.m.
In article <4bbcf028-e2d1-5b52-810e-b89e0e23a490(a)scifidan.com> you write:
A buddy of mine showed off his Wyse 520 and was
wondering if anyone on here
has one and if you use it. It's a nice looking keyboard but I'm not that
fond of the small screen.
The screen is 14-inch. Many, many terminals have a 12-inch screen.
<https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Wyse_WY-520>
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3:34 p.m.
I'd use one but not sure how I could utilize it.
Daniel
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2026, Richard via cctalk wrote:
In article
<4bbcf028-e2d1-5b52-810e-b89e0e23a490(a)scifidan.com> you write:
A buddy of mine showed off his Wyse 520 and was
wondering if anyone on here
has one and if you use it. It's a nice looking keyboard but I'm not that
fond of the small screen.
The screen is 14-inch. Many, many terminals have a 12-inch screen.
<https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Wyse_WY-520>
--
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book
<http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org>
Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>
4:47 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 07:34:13AM -0800, me--- via cctalk wrote:
I'd use one but not sure how I could utilize it.
If you don't have a server to hook it up to, you could configure a
(Open|Net|Free)BSD or Linux desktop or even laptop to listen (tty)
through an RS-232 (DB-25 or maybe even DE-9) port to which you could
then connect either a Wyse or other serial terminal (I also have an
Ampex).
Cheers,
Ángel
19 Feb
19 Feb
1:05 a.m.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote:
Fully supported with GNU ncurses:
$ ls -la /usr/share/terminfo/w/wyse520
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 2 2019 /usr/share/terminfo/w/wyse520 -> wy520
$
via an occasional serial port.
Maciej
I'd use
one but not sure how I could utilize it.
If you don't have a server to hook it up to, you could configure a
(Open|Net|Free)BSD or Linux desktop or even laptop to listen (tty)
through an RS-232 (DB-25 or maybe even DE-9) port to which you could
then connect either a Wyse or other serial terminal (I also have an
Ampex).
2:47 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote:
Fully supported with GNU ncurses:
$ ls -la /usr/share/terminfo/w/wyse520
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 2 2019 /usr/share/terminfo/w/wyse520 -> wy520
$
via an occasional serial port.
Maciej
Maciej -
Does it render tmux screens properly, by chance?
Daniel
sysop | Air & Wave BBS
finger | calcmandan(a)bbs.erb.pw
I'd
use one but not sure how I could utilize it.
If you don't have a server to hook it up to, you could configure a
(Open|Net|Free)BSD or Linux desktop or even laptop to listen (tty)
through an RS-232 (DB-25 or maybe even DE-9) port to which you could
then connect either a Wyse or other serial terminal (I also have an
Ampex).
20 Feb
20 Feb
12:41 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026, me(a)scifidan.com wrote:
No idea.
Maciej
Fully
supported with GNU ncurses:
$ ls -la /usr/share/terminfo/w/wyse520
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 2 2019 /usr/share/terminfo/w/wyse520 -> wy520
$
via an occasional serial port.
Does it render tmux screens properly, by chance?
19 Feb
19 Feb
1:49 a.m.
I don't have a server. I've been thinking about building geoff's vt100 board
and using a serial wifi card to use it for connecting to my headless rpi
servers and my vps. Plus do my bbs'ing.
Maybe something of the sort could beused for a WYSE machine.
Only now learning about these nice looking devices. It appears Dell bought
the company.
Daniel
sysop | Air & Wave BBS
finger | calcmandan(a)bbs.erb.pw
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 07:34:13AM -0800, me--- via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I'd use one but not sure how I could utilize it.
>
> If you don't have a server to hook it up to, you could configure a
> (Open|Net|Free)BSD or Linux desktop or even laptop to listen (tty)
> through an RS-232 (DB-25 or maybe even DE-9) port to which you could
> then connect either a Wyse or other serial terminal (I also have an
> Ampex).
>
> Cheers,
> Ángel
>
18 Feb
18 Feb
12:13 p.m.
Hello, hello!
On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 03:09:55PM -0800, me--- via cctalk wrote:
A buddy of mine showed off his Wyse 520 and was
wondering if anyone on
here has one and if you use it. It's a nice looking keyboard but I'm
not that fond of the small screen.
I am lucky enough to be the proud owner of a Wyse WY-50. As in the 520,
the keyboard is fantastic, not only nice looking, but also robust and
functional, and the screen is 14", which I find excellent for most of
what I do. I wouldn't like it to be larger. :-)
Cheers,
Ángel
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