Hello, Roy.   From back on 9/9 - -

 RJT> I ended up snagging another socket 7 MB,  this one with a VIA chipset I
 RJT> should look up.  And I've still not tested ram yet,  I need to do some
 RJT> rearranging in here so I can set up another machine,  and plug it in
 RJT> and let it rip.  At least I got as far as making the floppy...

I've been meaning to mention -  on the other worktable here, I have two
boxes which share a single keyboard and monitor.  I have a 4-box manual
KVM box and cables here, but haven't set that up yet, either (I know,
lazy).  Anyway, what I use for those two boxes I'll call a "poor man's
KVM switch - -  with careful shopping, monitor and keyboard extension
cables can be had for a buck or two apiece.  I got two of each, and
attached them to the 2 boxes.  Routed the monitor cable and keyboard
cable to front of the desk, and the above 4 extension cables are nearby.
To switch from box to box,  I just switch the cables around.

I don't worry about mouse, because those don't take up much deskspace,
and anyway one of the boxes has a serial mouse and the other has a PS/2.
PS/2 mouses don't like being hot-swapped anyway, and it takes the more
expensive kind of KVM switchboxes to accommodate that.  They have some
sort of circuitry in there which fools the system into thinking the PS/2
mouse is there, even when it is switched away from that particular box.

- - -  JimH.


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