Re: [WinMac] Sharing Keyboards between Mac and PC

Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:17:07 -0400

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I've got two of these Belkin boxes in use and I like them a lot. One of
them has two Novell servers, an NT Server and a PowerMac 7500 all using the
same PC monitor, keyboard & mouse. The other Belkin box has two PCs on it.
The Mac adapter is in use on the 7500 of course.

>The video is fine. My problem was in the way the PC keyboard was mapped to
>the Mac side. Keys were sticking. Not just text or number keys buy the
>command keys as well. It was very annoying. There are DIP switches you
>change on the box to map to the different keyboards. I tried swapping both
>101 and 104 PC keyboards with the same result. No luck.
>
>I'm still using it. But I have 2 keyboards now.

If you've got one of those stupid Gateway Anykey keyboards throw it away
and try a real keyboard. We used to have a few Gateways around here and
those keyboards were always causing problems. Now, all but one of our PCs
are Dell I couldn't be happier.

Just last week I did run into a problem with the one last Gateway we have
left. Even though it was using a Dell keyboard through the Belkin
switchbox I had trouble controlling it until I rebooted the Gateway. It's
an older 486/66 computer and will be phased out soon. I won't be sorry to
see it go.

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