Re: Limits of ADB...?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:

: >Hardware question here...
: >
: >I got this brilliant idea that I could run some cable downstairs and
: >operate my IIgs from the living room, using the TV set there as a monitor,
: >or hooking up a second monitor.
: >
: >The question is...How far can I go with an ADB cable?  Can I successfully
: >use an S-Video cable as an ADB extension?  Has anyone tried going, say,
: >50' with a GS keyboard and mouse?  I'm thinking that a pair of video
: >cables and a long keyboard cable would do the trick...  (pair of video
: >cables 'cause the whole idea is to pipe the signal through my VOC...)

: It is possible.  One of the people formerly at Quality Computers
: wrote in an issue of Enhance that he did the exact same thing
: (minus the VOC).  ADB was built for this kind of stuff.

: And if you have LOS (line of sight) you can even use one of
: those fancy infrared ADB transponders so you would not have
: to use an actual 50' cable.  ;-)

Nope, that won't work...the idea is to have the computer and keyboard a
whole *floor* away from each other...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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