Pastor Mac wrote: >Hi all-- > >This is a totally geeky & over the top question... > >I've got 3 Windows boxen plus 4 Macs waiting to be assembled in a >home network. The network part isn't the problem and I'm going to >try wireless rather than dangling Cat 5 cable over lights, the wife's >knick knacks, etc:-) But for the most part, all the machines are >basically in one room and four tower machines can be stacked 2X2 >between two small desks. So here's the question: Is there a type of >A/B/C switch that the output cables of each machine can go to for a >unified input set of keyboard, mouse, monitor, & speakers. I don't >have the same amount of horizontal space to mount these boxen with >their attendant peripherals so I'm trying to be a little bit creative >otherwise my distributed.net key crunch rate will suffer by having >machines sit idle in the garage... > > Unless the both the PCs and Macs are USB, this may be a very expensive proposition. The adapters from ADB to PS/2 aren't cheap for the KVMs I've seen. And a seven port KVM (either USB or PS/2) will also likely be expensive.
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