RE: Displaying and controlling my PC from any TV

[Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>]

At work all our presentation machines have....

PS2 mouse on desk.
Logitech Cordless mouse on Com Port.

One machine also has a space Mouse (3D thingy) on the other com port.

apart from very occasionally refusing to see both mice they work extremely
well.

I have also built a keyboard splitter based on a circuit I found on the
net.
It works quite well and I even modified it to have 3 keyboards on the same
PC. The only limitation is that only one of the keyboard has active LED's
for CAPS/NUM/SCROLL etc. Also only one keyboard is ever active at any time
but I could happily type a message using a different keyboard for each
keypress. I havent had the time to develop the idea further but it is
possible.
BTW. The bits for the splitter cost under 2 quid and all the keyboards were
normal PC keyboards either PS2 or DIN.

http://home.t-online.de/home/stephan.hans/tricks.htm

Hope that helps

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 31 July 2000 12:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Displaying and controlling my PC from any TV
>
>
> Now there's a surprise, I would have expected a PC
> (especially windows) not
> to like having two devices of the same type connected via 2 different
> adaptors, because they both use different drivers, neither of
> which I would
> expect to know about the other, I would have expected only
> one of them to work.
>
> But there you go, expect the unexpected. :-)
>
> At 12:47 31/07/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >I have had PS2 and USB mouse connected to a single computer
> at the same
> >time, no problem. Haven't tried two keyboards tho.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Graham
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 1:09 PM
> >Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Displaying and controlling my PC from any TV
> >
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