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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Help w/ WY-60 terminal, please
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Date: 12 Dec 87 21:47:39 GMT
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In article <4467@ihlpg.ATT.COM> bdewbank@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Bryan Ewbank) writes:
>I am the proud owner of a WYSE wy60 terminal [...]
>Specifically, with the terminal personality (setup window #2) defined as
>WY-60, I can't read anything.  The login: prompt appears as garbage [yes,
>the baud rate is correct].  Now, without breaking the connection to the
>computer, I change the personality to WY-50+... bingo! everything is again
>readable.

It looks like a parity bug.  Many Wyse terminals have problems when
the parity bit isn't 0. I have had problems with both the wyse-85 and
wyse-99 in this respect. Wyse has a menu item that give you a choice
of no-parity/odd/even/mark/space parity. As far as I could tell, this
menu item didn't do anything for *recieved* parity in some emulation
modes.  We were unable to get these terminals working with BSD
systems.

The wyse-75, on the other hand, does a reasonable job as a vt-100
clone. 

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