[GRLUG] Wyse thin clients

[Michael Glaske]

I think I still might have some Serial and Parallel USB Adapters for WYSE
terminals leftover from when my business shutdown if need be (sometimes they
are hard to get).

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:43 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Michael Glaske wrote:
> >
> >> I have used them before in numerous places.  Bar Code Scanners usually
> work
> >> and emulate a keyboard, so they will definitely work if they are of that
> >> type.  Some of them emulate a serial port, and that can be passed
> through
> >> the thin client depending upon the type and protocol you are using (RDP,
> >> ICA, etc).  Others are proprietary, but not very common, and those
> probably
> >> will not work.
> >>
> >> 95% of them simply emulate a keyboard, so those types are 100%
> supported.
> >>
> > That's one possibility - thanks for the confirmation [all].
> >
> > One of the connections will be to a scale, and that is RS232. What are
> the
> > chances that 'port forwarding' a USB port will work with a standard RS232
> > connection?
>
> Find the right USB RS232 dongle, and you should be fine. There are
> pretty common USB serial profiles, but dongle quality and behavior
> vary; you may want to sample a few different models. and find one that
> works. (Simplistically speaking, if you can plug the dongle into a few
> different operating systems without installing drivers, you should be
> fine.)
>
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