[H-GEN] using one monitor with 2 pc's

Troy Piggins troy at piggo.com
Sun Oct 30 20:40:27 EST 2005


* James Collins <nospam at ltuae.com> :
> 
> > knows how/where I could get a switch to flick the monitor between the 
> > 2 pc's to save me manually having to unplug/plug the monitor each 
> > time.
> 
> 	You're after a KVM Switch. Not an entirely simple undertaking. But
> pretty straight forward. 
> 
> 	There's lots of really expensive, logic switched fancy ones, or just
> straight rotary knob ones. Rose make a very nice range of fancy ones
> (www.rose.com) or you can try Dick Smith or Jaycar for something...
> 
> 	You _should_ be able to get such a thing from most computer stores.
> Just tell the sales guy what you need. You want to connect 2 PCs to one
> monitor. You'll need the extra cables to connect from the KVM to the PCs.
> They're not always the most reliable things in the world though! :) ...
> Someone else in Humbug might even have one in a box of bits somewhere. 

Thanks to all who replied.  I actually did ask a Dick Smith the
other week and they told me they don't sell them, which surprised
me.  I thought it must be too specialised if they don't stock them.

I'll try Harvey Norman etc and see.

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Troy Piggins
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