Labman
03-02-2008, 04:31 PM
I checked around the only one I found was $184. I bought a cheap little KVM for $16. The Mac has been running for years with an adapter to a PS/2 monitor. Just plugging everything in took care of the monitor. Mice don't take that much room, so I do have 2 cluttering up the desk. That left the keyboards. I made a couple of wooden end caps and clamped the 2 keyboards together, bottom to bottom. It only takes seconds to hit the KVM button, flip the keyboards over, and grab the other mouse.
OK, we are still hanging on an ancient Power Mac. Hey, I can do simple text and graphic tasks on it in less time than it takes to open Open Office on my Linux box. However, web surfing takes for ever. We recently came by an old Windows 98 box. As much as I despise them, and usually skip them, there are some web sites that nothing except Windows and IE seems to work. I got tired of IE crashing, and installed Foxfire too. IE is still there when worst comes to worst. So in little more space than one, for next to nothing, we have 2 computers, each filling a special need.
OK, we are still hanging on an ancient Power Mac. Hey, I can do simple text and graphic tasks on it in less time than it takes to open Open Office on my Linux box. However, web surfing takes for ever. We recently came by an old Windows 98 box. As much as I despise them, and usually skip them, there are some web sites that nothing except Windows and IE seems to work. I got tired of IE crashing, and installed Foxfire too. IE is still there when worst comes to worst. So in little more space than one, for next to nothing, we have 2 computers, each filling a special need.