Niamh (apparently) asks:
"Is there a gadget which would allow me to connect two computers to one
monitor? my problem is I am having to run a laptop and destop at work.i
don't want to ask my employer for help,but increasingly i need sighted help
and a simple switch would help."
You can purchase a device referred to as a "KVM Switch" (Keyboard, Video,
Mouse), this will permit a pair of PCs (desktop and/or laptop) to use a
single Keyboard, Video (monitor) and Mouse. Some of these KVM switches also
support a keystroke that will execute the "switch over" from one PC to the
other. Bear in mind that this will not allow for activities on both PCs to
be visible on the Video screen simultaneously, only one PC at a time can
interact with the Keyboard, Video and Mouse via this configuration. I
suppose, if it were necessary to be able to watch what was going on both PCs
the video connection could be ignored on this gadget and regular channels
could be used to utilize the monitors per each PC. And I can't say whether
or not the video output on the laptop might not still appear on the laptop's
screen in addition to the monitor connected via the KVM (when I used my KVM
Switch, it was connected to a pair of desktops).
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