I have a choice between Wyse WY370 and WY355/es, same price. I will be using a linux host, no specific application requirements as the terminal is mainly for a new development.

From what I can see, WY370 had Tektronix graphics emulation/personality and slightly more cols/rows - but the WY355 is more recently made and has a higher max baud rate. WY370 possibly has more colors but can't determine this from details available.

Does anyone else have any experience/recommendations/specs that could help?

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Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house> spake the secret code <20170713155650.e25cc8d8a02b4f013edd154b@shallow.house> thusly:

I have a choice between Wyse WY370 and WY355/es, same price. I will be
using a linux host, no specific application requirements as the terminal
is mainly for a new development.

From what I can see, WY370 had Tektronix graphics emulation/personality
and slightly more cols/rows - but the WY355 is more recently made and
has a higher max baud rate. WY370 possibly has more colors but can't >determine this from details available.

Does anyone else have any experience/recommendations/specs that could help?

In a brief attempt at googling I didn't find anything significant for
the WY-355 (ES or otherwise). Just a short blurb in InfoWorld
announcing it in 1996.

<http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Wyse_WY-355>

If you have links to better information, I'd love to incorporate that
into the wiki.

For terminals with some sort of graphics capability, most of them have Tektronix compatibility as Tektronix was the defacto industry standard
graphics protocol for many applications during the 70s and 80s.
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The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org>
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legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) wrote:

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Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house> spake the secret code <20170713155650.e25cc8d8a02b4f013edd154b@shallow.house> thusly:

I have a choice between Wyse WY370 and WY355/es, same price. I will be >using a linux host, no specific application requirements as the terminal
is mainly for a new development.

From what I can see, WY370 had Tektronix graphics emulation/personality

and slightly more cols/rows - but the WY355 is more recently made and
has a higher max baud rate. WY370 possibly has more colors but can't >determine this from details available.

Does anyone else have any experience/recommendations/specs that could help?

In a brief attempt at googling I didn't find anything significant for
the WY-355 (ES or otherwise). Just a short blurb in InfoWorld
announcing it in 1996.

<http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Wyse_WY-355>

If you have links to better information, I'd love to incorporate that
into the wiki.

For terminals with some sort of graphics capability, most of them have Tektronix compatibility as Tektronix was the defacto industry standard graphics protocol for many applications during the 70s and 80s.
--
"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>

Thanks, yes it seems the info available online is less than minimal for the 355. I think the most detailed specs I managed to find are at the bottom of this page:
http://www.stonesys.com/product.aspx?pf_id=WY-355

It does look like the text is copied/pasted from somewhere, but can't find any other similar details anywhere online.

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Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house> spake the secret code <20170720230017.741e704ff211846842894ce2@shallow.house> thusly:

Thanks, yes it seems the info available online is less than minimal for
the 355. I think the most detailed specs I managed to find are at the
bottom of this page:
http://www.stonesys.com/product.aspx?pf_id=WY-355

Great, I've recorded that into the wiki.

It does look like the text is copied/pasted from somewhere, but can't
find any other similar details anywhere online.

Yeah, they probably copy/pasted it from a product data sheet.
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"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>

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Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:

Great, I've recorded that into the wiki.

Glad to be of assistance - terminals wiki is great, been quite
indispensible to me recently.

I have something else coming my way that I should be able to provide
some details on, it is an ICL (Fujitsu after takeover) Ergoview.
Can't find much online, but I suspect these could be rebadged products
made by some other company.

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bargepole <bargepole@bargepole.in.bpm> spake the secret code <olb2ar$v1v$1@dont-email.me> thusly:

Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:

Great, I've recorded that into the wiki.

Glad to be of assistance - terminals wiki is great, been quite
indispensible to me recently.

I have something else coming my way that I should be able to provide
some details on, it is an ICL (Fujitsu after takeover) Ergoview.
Can't find much online, but I suspect these could be rebadged products
made by some other company.

Pictures, documentation and general specs are always welcome :).

I can create an account for you if you think it's worthwhile, or just
simply post pic links and/or info here and I can upload to the wiki
from that.
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"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>

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