Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: Help w/ WY-60 terminal, please Message-ID: <2019@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 12 Dec 87 21:47:39 GMT References: <4467@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Distribution: na Organization: Independent Software Consultant Lines: 22 Keywords: alternate character set(?) 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. Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP addr 18.82.0.114) Independent Consultant UUCP: {mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu,mirror!mit-mgm}!wolfgang VOICE: Hey_Wolfgang!_(617)_267-4365