With all due respect, by the time you've spent $150, and
have bought a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, you could
have bought a cheapy computer, two nics and a cross-over
cable.

Fold in the cost of paying you for some semi-custom work,
and this is even more true.

With the cost of last year's model of value pc so very low,
just about any solution using non-mass-market hardware
is unlikely to be cost effective.

(Of course, since your customer explicitly *doesn't* *want*
a pc, you could disable his start button, or only partition
50 Mb of his disk, or run three copies of fast find in the
background, or something.)


Larry Fisk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Jim;
> I have personally installed this system for a client:
> http://www1.ipc.com.sg/html/b200change.html
> It is called the  "Buddy"
> Basically you install a pci card in a Win9X computer then run regular cat 5
> cabling to  a box which you hook up a monitor,keyboard and mouse.
> you can run all apps on the "host" computer from the second station.
> Works well , only thing that doesn't work is sound on the add-on station
> If I recall correctly it costs around $150, plus the cost of a monitor,
> keyboard and mouse....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Cook" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> I have a customer who has a computer set up in his office.  He wants to have
> a monitor, keyboard and mouse set up outside the office at a customer desk
> so he can look up information without having to buy another computer and
> network the two systems.  The computer will be controlled from only one
> location at a time.  Can someone give me a list of the parts (cables,
> switches, etc.) that I would need to set this up.

     Frank R.Brown
     Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews

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