RE: [TCLUG:16820] Stone Soup computers (related to Obsolete Hardware)

[Tim Sandquist <tim@damango.net>]

I've used a Belkin kvm at 1200x1024.  It's usable but you can really 
tell it's stretching the capabilities.  The documentation says you 
need a better cable if you want to run a higher resolution than 
1024x768 iirc.  Anyway, they're really handy, especially since 
some (all?) have keyboard shortcut keys to switch monitors.  

Tim

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >Anybody out there used one of those monitor/keyboard/mouse switchers?
> >If I had one of those, I wouldn't need another color monitor.  Another
> >possibility would be to run the thing headless, and telnet in over
> >my LAN.  Worst comes to worst I can run it monochrome again.
> >
> >dsc
> 
>         Yep. I've got a belkin OmniCube on my desk beside me, and have been
> using it for about a year. marvelous thing. generally, you forget about it
> until you need it.
>         words of warning: stay away from Linksys KVM switches. I tried one
> of those at first, and it was the most abominable piece of crap hardware
> I've ever used. cheap case, flimsy buttons, made the screen crawl, caused
> the mouse to spontaneously fly and click all over the screen, and spewed
> garbage text.
>         the OmniCube has been pretty solid; tho it's probably not as good as
> a straight connection. I'm only running 1024x768@75Hz here at work; so
> that's within what the switch will handle. It might be a bit more
> questionable if I tried it on my 21" 1440x1080@81Hz at home, tho. :) there
> have been a few glitches & things I might be able to attribute to it, but
> nothing consistent.
>         BlackBox supposedly makes some very high quality stuff; but you pay
> through the nose for it. :)
> 
> and there's always VNC, for running Linux boxen. :) if you only want to run
> a few xterms on a remote server; that's the way to go, if you have the
> bandwidth. (wiggling the cursor an inch or two takes several K of data).
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
> 
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