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Re: KVM For the GS?
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1051217154143.20708B-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>,
Simon D. Williams <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Terry Olsen wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ever built a KVM for the GS? I am thinking about building one. I
>> need 2 GS's but don't have room for the extra monitor, keyboard, & mouse.
>
>Might be worth trying an old Mac KVM if you can find one... I've seen them
>go cheap on eBay.
A PS/2-to-ADB converter would take care of the keyboard and mouse. Video
would be a bit more tricky. If you have one of the few VGA monitors that
can sync to the IIGS's RGB output, all you need is a Mac-video-to-VGA
dongle. If you don't, things get interesting. If you can lash together an
RGB-to-component adapter, maybe you can feed the output of that into this:
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/tventertainment/tvvideoprocessors/nextvisionn5/
That'll take 480i component input and produce VGA output.
There also appear to be some ready-made RGB-to-component adapters out there,
like this:
http://www.hometheaterworld.com/keydikd.html
I suspect the total cost of all this hardware is going to be somewhere
around $500, though, which is nuts. A good hardware project for someone to
tackle would be to combine PS/2-to-ADB and RGB-to-VGA conversion on one
board. I'd pay $100 for it if somebody made it.
Once you had that conversion done, though, you could use any
commonly-available KVM switch. (I could use either of the switches I
already have.)
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