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On 5 May 98 at 5:36, Ron Taylor wrote:
> I use a Cybex switch. It came with 7 ports for 7 different
> computers. With this there is are 7 mouse ports and 7 keyboard
> ports. There is also room to dd 4 more ports in the box. This may
> be expensive one might say but I have 5 computers currently
> connected and I only use 1 Mouse, 1 Keyboard, and 1 Monitor. The
> savings in the cos of mice, keyboards, and monitors should be
> apparent.
We use very similar boxes on our rack-mount servers, where saving
money was much less important than saving *space*. Each 8-server
switcher was about $900, which is clearly overkill for two machines
but not bad for 6-8.
David G
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