Funny, I never got a warm and fuzzy from Tiger Direct so have never
bought from them. Just my Irish instinct I guess. ;')
Thanks for confirming my impressions.

I also agree, it is probably more expensive to build one than buy one. I
bought mine used from my company. It's a very nice electronic one.
Belkin Omniview. It has one serial, one ps/2, one video connection each
for 2 PCs. 

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: mac ten
> Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: off topic
> 
> 
> It shouldn't be hard to make but in my experience costs more to make a
> good one than it's worth.
> 
> Also I caution you against buying anything from Tiger Direct. I worked
> there for quite some time and sort-of-kinda knew the owner 
> socially (he
> was a friend of my inlaws so got invited to some of the same parties I
> did..) and I wouldn't trust them to sell me a box of crayons.
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I forget who the hardware guy/guys are in here but I
> > was just curious, I saw this cable device that could
> > hook two computers to one monitor, keyboard and mouse
> > in the tiger direct catalog. I was wondering how
> > difficult would it be to make one myself, it used a
> > kvm switch and when your using one machine the switch
> > emulates a monitor keyboard and mouse for the other so
> > it doesnt lock up.  It said it didnt use any software
> > to install, anyway I just thought I'd ask.
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> 
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