Re: Apple monitor,keyboard and mouse for WinNT applications

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"FNS Consultancy" <frank_silven@fnsconsultancy.nl> wrote in message
3B92995F.3040707@fnsconsultancy.nl">news:3B92995F.3040707@fnsconsultancy.nl...
> Hi,
>
> Could somebody please help me with the following problem:
>
> Our library is planning to cutover to a new Windows 2000 Server based
> application. At the moment we do not yet have a server, but a couple of
> Windows 98 PCs which run a centrally (remote) controlled Windows
> application (connnected via cluster controller).
>
> These current PCs however operate on Apple monitors, mice and keyboards
> as the management wanted the library to have an Apple 'look and feel'
> regardless the fact that the applications needed to run under Windows.

Are we talking about Mac Apple monitors? If we are, you are posting
this to the wrong newsgroup. This is an Apple II newsgroup for computers
manufactured by Apple before the advent of the Macintosh.

However, the Apple monitors will work on PC's because they are
usually multisync monitors. The difference being that the monitors
needed a special monitor cable to go to a stock PC VGA connector.

> The thing is that we now want to know how this was technically
> established (special windows PC card, special device drivers ??).  The
> person in charge has left the library in a conflict and the original
> supplier  is unwilling to reveal this information to us (as we are about
> to make the new server deal with another supplier).

There may have been drivers but you should be able to find that out
from the Control Panel under the System settings. Check for the
Monitor section in explorer and it will say what the monitor is set
at. Also check the adapter card settings.

> We want to upgrade the current Win98 PCs to Win2000 workstation PC and
> we also want to purchase 6 new Win 2000 workstation PCs but our new
> director still wants to maintain the Apple monitors, keyboards and mice.

Apple keyboards from prior to 1998 were not compatible with the PC
so I don't know how this was established without special hardware to
support ADB. If the keyboards were iMac keyboards, they are just
stock USB keyboards and mice and should work on any stock PC
regardless of which version of Windows you are running.

> Questions:
>
> 1. If  special cards and drivers are present on these Win98 PCs, will
> this still run after the Win2000 Workstation upgrade ?

The drivers for Win 2000 are different than the ones required for
Windows 9x so yes you would need drivers if they were used on
the old machines. see above. They will use Windows NT drivers
though since Win 2000 is Windows NT 5.0.  I hope we aren't
confusing Win 2000 with Windows ME because they aren't the
same thing.

> 2. What extra hardware/software do we need on the 6 new Win2000
> workstations to operate on the above mentioned Apple hardware ?

The monitors should just be a cable however if they are ADB keyboard
and mice, I would suspect they would need special hardware. If they
are USB, then it should work.

> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
>
--
--
William R. Strutts - wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com - Whatever!

C'est moi!  http://www.facelink.com/wrstrutts

Just hacking away...

Remove nospam to reply.