Crazy Monitor idea for old Home Computers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Apr 2005

On Apr 22 2005, 17:34, Zane H. Healy wrote:
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   People might
think that your next step is to replace your vintage
 computers with simulators. 
 Trust me, I gave that some serious thought.  I'm not about to give up the
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  space that my PDP-11's take at home with 8-bit
micro's, and I'm seriously
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  short on space for more HW.

 The odds are I'll use real monitors, I'm just exploring my options.
 Realistically this is most practical if I decide to setup one of my //gs's,
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  except I think they prefer a different type monitor.

I use a simple 2-way KVM (but only the V part, obviously) switch for my
BBC Micro (PAL composite) and my Exidy Sorcerer (NTSC composite).  And
a second 4-way KVM (again, V part only) for another BBC Micro (using
the RGB output at 50Hz/15kHz), a PC (VGA), another Acorn machine, and
whatever random 4th device want to be viewed.  This one's connected to
a multisync.  So it can be done.  I didn't really expect the KVM switch
to work properly like that, but it did.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York