Appraisal: Wyse Multi-User PC and Terminals

[Nikolas Caven]

I have a working Wyse 386/25 multi-user PC/mainframe, 4 terminals to go with it, an IBM model F for the main PC, and 4 Wyse WY60 Terminal keyboards to go with it.

Example of a terminal: https://www.pcliquidations.com/p16352-wyse-executone-crt-40017
Example of a terminal keyboard: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52597.0
Example of the PC: https://twitter.com/Nik_Caven/status/707321153812086784

What would the price of this whole setup be? (Note: I do not have all the cords for the assorted components, have tested function on all though.)

Thanks for any input!

 

[Spectre694]

I have no idea that is honestly more of museum/collectors piece than anything. You might want to ask around some collector forums or something.

 

[Nikolas Caven]

I have no idea that is honestly more of museum/collectors piece than anything. You might want to ask around some collector forums or something.

Yeah I have absolutely no idea what to even ask for the thing... it came out in the age before the internet was a thing, so its hard to even find data on it since WYSE was not that popular. At least not enough to get every single PC they made into Wikipedia:
*stares at the IBM timeline*
*stares at WYSE timeline*
*only a few PC's in WYSE timeline*
*literally every product ever made by IBM in IBM timeline*
*gets annoyed*

lol

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Does it have historical significance? Is it useful for something today? Any evidence that anything similar ever sold on ebay or is a collectable? It's neat. Unless it has some sort of significance and I don't know at all just speculating here, but I'd say it's probably worthless. Like pay somebody to haul it away worthless.

Best of luck though.

 

[Nikolas Caven]

Does it have historical significance? Is it useful for something today? Any evidence that anything similar ever sold on ebay or is a collectable? It's neat. Unless it has some sort of significance and I don't know at all just speculating here, but I'd say it's probably worthless. Like pay somebody to haul it away worthless.

Best of luck though.

I'm not sure if it is worth anything, as all the parts for it are strangely expensive, yet I cannot find the assembled PC being sold at any point in the last 2-3 years. I'm very confuzzled, may just throw it on an auction at some point--- but I'd rather not just throw it up for auction and see what happens... maybe that is the best bet though.

 

[Spectre694]

I have no idea that is honestly more of museum/collectors piece than anything. You might want to ask around some collector forums or something.

Yeah I have absolutely no idea what to even ask for the thing... it came out in the age before the internet was a thing, so its hard to even find data on it since WYSE was not that popular. At least not enough to get every single PC they made into Wikipedia:
*stares at the IBM timeline*
*stares at WYSE timeline*
*only a few PC's in WYSE timeline*
*literally every product ever made by IBM in IBM timeline*
*gets annoyed*

lol

Haha ya I hear ya there I wonder if that is the same Wyse Dell bought a few years ago though? Either way good luck you just have to find someone who wants/needs it.

For example I still buy old Sun sparc stations and SGI octane/indigos for work so there might be a market for yours even though it is a fair bit older.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

They are owned by Dell now. They made IBM clones back when there were dozens of companies that did it. Then Dell came along and did it cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Wyse

 

[Nikolas Caven]

HAHA i found what it is. It is a unix-based multi-user server released in 1990, the WYSE Series 5000i Model 510
... No idea what its worth but still
link here http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA8067230&v=2.1&u=mnauduluth&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w