Re: RE: [TCLUG:4760] sharing a monitor

[Jim Raney <seumas@citilink.com>]

Is that kvm all ps-2 only, or can it work with AT/Serial on the system
side?

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Jim Raney

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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Troy Johnson wrote:

> Ouch!
> 
> If I am not mistaken, this is the same KVM switch I bought from CDW
> (I saw it at the Roseville CompUSA for ~$200 around Christmas time). I
> like this switch alot. So much I put up a page dedicated to it:
> 
> 	http://www.tc.umn.edu/~john1536/fun/kvm.html
> 
> talk about too much time on my hands...
> 
> Troy
> 
> >>> "Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu> 03/16 3:58 PM >>>
> We just bought a 4-port monitor/keyboard/mouse switch from CompUSA
> for work.
> It was made by Belkin, but I don't remember the model number. It was
> like
> $175 or something. It even had emulation, which means that you could
> reboot
> one computer while looking at another. On the really cheap systems,
> if you
> don't have the switch set to the computer while it's rebooting, it
> will give
> you a keyboard error.
> 
> It seems to be a pretty quality unit for home use. I know that most
> of the
> good ones for hard-core server racks are ~$350+...
> 
> Neal
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Hillman [mailto:ehillman@cccu.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 12:04 PM
> > To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com 
> > Subject: RE: [TCLUG:4760] sharing a monitor
> >
> >
> > > Now that you mention it, I've got two RH5.2 machines and would
> like to
> > > share a monitor between them. If it's not to expensive, I'ld
> > like to share
> > > a mouse and keyboard also. It would be great to clear some space
> on my
> > > bench. The machines have identical video display cards, I don't
> know if
> > > that affects anything. I haven't even begun to research this
> > issue so you
> > > would be accurate in assuming that I am completely ignorant. If
> > you've got
> > > URLs for reading material, please forward them.
> > >
> >
> > 	Apex (http://apex.com) manufactures switches that handle
> > 4-16 machines on a
> > single mouse, monitor and keyboard.  They handle PS/2 extremely
> well.  You
> > can even tier the switches, so you can scale to a nearly
> > unlimited number of
> > systems.  They are not especially cheap, however -- entry-level is
> about
> > $495.  Of course, if you've got 3 computers, then the savings on 2
> fewer
> > monitors make it pretty reasonable.
> >
> > 	Of course, what I do is just run everything via X from one
> > PC -- pretty
> > much the only time I actually ever touch the keyboard of a server
> is when
> > I'm rebooting it (once or twice a year, say.)
> >
> >
> >
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