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Mac KVM

68kMLA Peripherals 5 posts Jan 5, 2011 to Jan 6, 2011

#1 Wed, 5 Jan 2011 - 23:57 68kMLA

Local Goodwill turned up a KVM for old Macs! Supports 3 machines (ADB and monitor) and also has a converter so you can use a PC or Mac monitor on your desk.

Not bad for $2!

#2 Wed, 5 Jan 2011 - 23:59 68kMLA

What brand and model?

#3 Thu, 6 Jan 2011 - 00:08 68kMLA

Umm it's fairly generic... I don't think it is labelled actually. No power cord required, though, so it's a fairly basic model. Labels on the front said it was used with a 6400, G3, and like 8600.

#4 Thu, 6 Jan 2011 - 00:51 68kMLA

The ones without electronics have issues when switching ADB.

I use a Dr.Bott Monoswitch (4 port ADB) and have a 12 port BlackBox SW939A for when I setup a huge table for macs.

ADB KVM are hard to come by these days.

#5 Thu, 6 Jan 2011 - 01:15 68kMLA

For mechanical (rotary switchbox) KVM's w/o KBD/mouse emulators in place when a Mac is offline, just keep an alias of ADB-Reset (?) on the Desktop so you can get rid of any issues very quickly and easily.

edit: checked it on my 6360, it's named ADBReset, and it's FreeWare from about 1999! [

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