Wyse ASCII, Teensy&TMK

ag36 · 25 Jun 2018, 19:58

Sorry for the double post, I've reported it for deletion.

As this keyboard I have didn't work with Soarer's WYSE Converter for unknown reason, no id received by the converter and every single pin from the controller was giving 0.5v~5.0v. I've confirmed pinouts with continuity check and colour coding seems to match other people's picture I decided to replace the controller.

Thank to this excellent post by ScottPaladin I was able to do most of the work in two afternoon:
workshop-f7/wyse-ascii-restoration-and- ... 18829.html

The mega download is the json file for TMK I've made, enjoy!
https://mega.nz/#!qRN03YLZ!0bnenWDiAz8c ... vpProL9Hw0

Dingster · 25 Jun 2018, 20:10

Nice

Love these wyse terminal boards so much, because of the giant ass space bar, too bad they are hard to find :p

PlacaFromHell · 25 Jun 2018, 20:25

Wyse keyboards are a pain in the ass sometimes. Mine had the same problem and also fried my Teensy. I'll try it with a Pro Micro. Dude, it looks amazing.

Blaise170 · 25 Jun 2018, 20:29

I internally converted a WYSE a few years ago, but desoldered it to test something else. When I soldered it back again, the WYSE refused to ever work again! I still have that Teensy, despite all of the burns on the PCB over the years.

ag36 · 25 Jun 2018, 23:11

Guess I was very lucky my teensy wasn't fried

, teensy are quite expensive.

andrewjoy · 26 Jun 2018, 10:28

They are awesome

I had one of them but the case was fucked so i killed it for parts.

I still have an ANSI wise tho and a DEC terminal layout one that's with its terminal.

ag36 · 26 Jun 2018, 11:58

I was quite into scale models so fixing the case was not much a problem, mine had a big dent and very unevenly yellowed I fixed it with super glue+baby powder than painted

Then I put wrong size screw and caused two bumps on the case, re-sanded and painted

Blaise170 · 26 Jun 2018, 15:27

The first WYSE I ever had was an Altos rebrand, was a cool little board but ended up selling for parts.

ag36 · 26 Jun 2018, 17:14

Blaise170 wrote: The first WYSE I ever had was an Altos rebrand, was a cool little board but ended up selling for parts.

Maybe you won't do it if you were in the UK

Blaise170 · 26 Jun 2018, 17:19

Well, the controller must have died somehow, so there was no reason to keep the board together.

ag36 · 26 Jun 2018, 17:45

Blaise170 wrote: Well, the controller must have died somehow, so there was no reason to keep the board together.

Issue in the UK is just...finding another board might take more effort than installing teensy

Blaise170 · 26 Jun 2018, 17:53

The Teensy was still working - the board was not.

ag36 · 27 Jun 2018, 00:16

I know, I meant wire the teensy as new controller.