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WYSEpc WY-1100-1 - Anyone have any documentation

RWallmow

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I recently picked up a Wyse PC model WY-1100-1 from fellow member "DOS Lives On!!"

As far as I can tell it works (beeps and floppy seeks), but I don't have a MDA monitor right now, and I was hoping to get an 8-bit VGA card that I have working in it, but I have searched up and down and cannot find ANYTHING on which DIP switches on the motherboard set the video modes. It has a 10-position DIP switch bank, which is of course NOT labeled. I of course searched Stason TULARC, but found nothing, the internet seems VERY sparse on ANYTHING about the WY-1100.

I have put in a email request to Wyse to see if they have anything in archives, but I am not terribly hopeful on that front since they were gobbled up by Dell.

I am hoping someone here might have a manual or other doco available that may be able to help me.

Thanks in advance!
 
modem7 said:
Interesting. The following data source indicates "Reserved".

View attachment 13997
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I found the video disable jumper listed in the chart under the hard drive, however it still has no effect on my VGA card working.

It's harder than it really should be to get a hold of a MDA monitor these days, lol

I am still almost certain the PC is booting up to DOS though, on power up the HD initializes, floppy seeks, POST-pass beeps, then HD flickers/seeks for about 5 seconds like its loading DOS.
 
DOS lives on!! said:
IIRC, it worked with my Amdek Video 310a monitor. It does pass POST and boots into a menu subsystem.
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Yeah, I think am going to need to pick up a mono monitor, just hard to find locally these days, and having one shipped is tough since it would probably be destroyed by FedEX/UPS box monkeys, lol
 
RWallmow said:
This is the VGA card I am trying to use.
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So, it is not an 8-bit VGA card - it is a 16-bit one.
There is the possibility that the "8-bit" configuration of the card requires an 80286 CPU or better (i.e. 8-bit operation intended for an 8-bit slot in an AT class machine).
 
modem7 said:
So, it is not an 8-bit VGA card - it is a 16-bit one.
There is the possibility that the "8-bit" configuration of the card requires an 80286 CPU or better (i.e. 8-bit operation intended for an 8-bit slot in an AT class machine).
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I had that thought earlier today, someone with a different VGA card was saying theirs only worked with with a PC/XT class machine when a NEC V20/V30 CPU was in place of the 8088/8086.
 
I am going to play necromancer a bit here on my own thread. Never did get a VGA card working in this, but I did pick up a IBM 5151 like 5 years ago, so using that.
7 years later, I was finally able to get the correct keyboard to match this PC, I was contacted through my website by Skylar Strickland and he sent me the keyboard for this.
Here she is booting PC DOS 3.3
 
another Wyse PC 1100 is on sale on Ebay, but again with no keyboard, which are proprietary to this machine and made of unobtainium...

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