On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> --- Keys <jrkeys_at_concentric.net> wrote:
> > I walked into one of the local thrifts today and spotted a cool looking
> > terminal with Data General label on the front but on the back it said
> > Wyse model WinTerm 2500-TP. It was priced at $21.12 but I was able to
> > get it for $12.21 plus tax.
>
> I've seen those at the local Uni surplus (at a substantially higher
> price, too high for me to justify playing with).
>
> Since you have one, what can you *do* with them? Run Citrix? I did
> some initial digging when I saw a few float by, but unless you are in
> a strong MS environment, what good are they? ISTR they have a Compact
> Flash card. Is it possible to run an OS on them, or are they locked
> into whatever their BIOS/firmware allow?
The ones I played with back when I had a job helping to maintain a Windows
Terminal Server installation (from back before I came over to the 'good
side') had at least an ASCII terminal emulator that worked with its serial
port, and possibly also could be used to do telnet without requiring it to
connect to a WTS machine. Their main purpose, however, was to connect to
a WTS host using RDP or Citrix Metaframe.
Still, I'm sure you can flash the firmware (we had to do it to fix some
bugs), without a WTS host connected, so I'm sure you could somehow coerse
it to be something nicer (perhaps a VNC terminal, or if you're really
adventerous, an X terminal).
Pat
--
"The Microsoft/IBM FORTRAN was adequate for teaching FORTRAN 77. But the
performance was AMAZING! It could actually take longer to run a benchmark
like sieve of Erastothanes with compiled FORTRAN than with interpreted
BASIC."
-- Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)
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Received on Fri Oct 25 2002 - 10:23:00 BST
