Re: new Macs Re: A China-Sumer connection

From: António Marques (m.ap_at_sapo.pt)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:21:24 +0000

On 06-03-2005 14:13, Peter T. Daniels scrived:

> That doesn't work -- if I plug my diskette drive into the extra
> keyboard socket, it tells me it needs to be plugged into the computer
> itself because it can't draw power through the keyboard.

OK, you still got 1 free socket in the Mac.

>> Another use Apple fashions for it is through a KVM (KDM) switch.
>> That's basically a box into which you plug your Keyboard, Display
>> and Mouse, and the box can then relay them to different computers,
>> one at a time of course. But of course that would usually require
>> similar hardware connectors on all 3 things (DVI/VGA for video, USB
>> for K/M). One could then place the Mac mini atop other computer's
>> case and switch at leisure between them at the pressing of a key.
>
> I don't see why you'd want to do that.

Only in case you might wish to use two computers in the same physical
space. May come in handy for some users.

> You must've mistaken me for a computer engineer.

Oh, no, that was just an unrelated quote. Sorry, the message composer
puts random quotes there and it got that one. 

-- 
António Marques

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