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