Sounds like it will be really nice when done! Keep us posted!

~The Penguin

I have a bunch of PC's and use a belkin soho kvm with them, makes life easy.

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Do you guys use KVM's on your macs? I have 4 macs Q950,Q840AV, PM7500, PM8500 and would love a cheap adb kvm solution to use with them.

I have a bunch of PC's and use a belkin soho kvm with them, makes life easy.

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I wish I had a KVM -- Hmmm... I wonder if a PC KVM could be hacked into a Mac KVM by replacing/rewiring the keyboard ports for ADB???

BTW, we had a big discussion of messy Mac rooms back in June 2002 (see
topic.asp.TOPIC_ID=1772.html ) Sadly, all but MacMoose's picture links are now dead.

G4From128k

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I wish I had a KVM -- Hmmm... I wonder if a PC KVM could be hacked into a Mac KVM by replacing/rewiring the keyboard ports for ADB???

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LOL! Good old jt answered my question about a hack PC KVM before I even got to ask it!

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HAR! Lemme know what you think of the pinout proposal for that adaptation, the only thing I was thinking might need to be changed would be to tie the Serial port's ground line to the ADB port's line instead of tacking it onto the shell ground, but I thought ADB should be kept fully isolated, the serial implementation is an unnecessary luxury.

jt .
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Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 18 Apr 2003 07:16:39

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HAR! Lemme know what you think of the pinout proposal for that adaptation, the only thing I was thinking might need to be changed would be to tie the Serial port's ground line to the ADB port's line instead of tacking it onto the shell ground, but I thought ADB should be kept fully isolated, the serial implementation is an unnecessary luxury.

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My only questions about the design is whether any of the lines need some form of dummy load resistors if the KVM is used to hot-swap stuff.

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My manual KVM supposedly is set up to look like a 21" monitor or some such, but it doesn't seem to mean anything more than normal sense line voodoo, no emulation setup apparent like on a better PC KVM.

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Might also need something on the sense-lines if any of the Macs are booted while being disconnected from the monitor.

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I've used DB-15 switchboxes successfully with my Portrait and with VGA, making sure the proper CPU is selected on the switch at bootup.

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Finally, IIRC some older Mac stuff (Mac II in particular) could get very unhappy if run with no ADB devices attached at all.

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I'd like to keep (in an ideal setup) one KBD/Mouse hooked up to each Mac for when problems crop up, using the switched peripherals in general use. Any funkiness due to switching OS levels can be fixed by running ADB Reset or eq. on the older Macs (the DuoDock under 7.5.3 loses track of how fast it's supposed to be mousing around sometimes the 6360 almost never has a problem under 9.0.? and the G4/Griffin adapter under 9.1 has never had a problem.)

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Otherwise, it is a very cool/cheap hack for the perennial problem of no space for monitors and keybds for every mac.

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I think it'll work, it's meant to let me run my plotter more easily from multiple PaleoMacs.

jt ™.
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I think it'll work, it's meant to let me run my plotter more easily from multiple PaleoMacs.

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Of course it will work! It sounds like you are always a step-ahead of me on all these issues.

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I think it'll work, it's meant to let me run my plotter more easily from multiple PaleoMacs.

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Of course it will work! It sounds like you are always a step-ahead of me on all these issues.

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Since I'm a frustrated engineering wannabe with no formal training whatsoever, I need to settle for being an equally frustrated inventor! :rolleyes:

jt ™.
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Oh yeah, and for storage, talk to trash about his custom rack

~The Penguin

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Oh yeah, and for storage, talk to trash about his custom rack

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The one I have for the PCI videovision/Telecast lets you connect a monitor and a television to monitor whats going on

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Dont you need a telecast box for all the neat video in/out ports?

The one I have for the PCI videovision/Telecast lets you connect a monitor and a television to monitor whats going on.

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Not that I know of, the breakout box works fine for anything I'd need to do AFAIK. I should try using the VVS card with the PrecisionView 2150 that's now on the rolling workstation sometime. If a telecast box would let me use the IntelliColor Display/20 with the VVS NuBus card I might try to pick one up tho.

jt ™.
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1 TiBook; 1 burnt lap, one logitech optical mouse.

I want to do a cart that has the 7300 or 6500 on it with an overhead projector and LCD panel on it. Also, I want possibly to have a wireless keyboard/mouse dealie and wireless networking

only onelong power cable is allowed to go across the floor...

~The Penguin

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Get Rid of the power cable! Get car batteries and inverters!

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I'd probably keep a UPS on there (just to keep the 7300 and the LCD on... not a 700watt projector or anything)

I'd do an umbilical if I needed that much power and all that to go to a rolling workstation that was in my own room in WA or something...

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NAH! Drop an umbilical from the ceiling to the cart, my rolling workstation has a 20 AMP mains line, three phone lines and PhoneNet in a single custom 4 pair wire setup, two ethernet feeds from the onboard hub, serial and AV hookups all running thru a 1.5" ShopVac hose from the overhead utility/lighting track.

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NAH! Drop an umbilical from the ceiling to the cart, my rolling workstation has a 20 AMP mains line, three phone lines and PhoneNet in a single custom 4 pair wire setup, two ethernet feeds from the onboard hub, serial and AV hookups all running thru a 1.5" ShopVac hose from the overhead utility/lighting track.

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CRIMINY!!!

You really do take the concept of your workshop over the top!!!

when are you going to get us a general shot of the entire workshop???

or multiple new shots, one from each corner??

and how big is that room anyway? It is impossible to tell from the photos.

I like the contents of that umbilical, do you have a PBX system in your apartment or summat?? THREE phone lines?

HAR

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My sentiments exactly!

You have NO IDEA!

Never, it's a mess.

I'd need to shift too much crap around. :rolleyes:

Supposedly a little over 600 Square feet.

It's commercial space, they're business lines.

jt ™.
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I have 100 running into my lair, which is my work office/serviceroom. I also have about 50 computers, a 19" rack that is 36 inches deep, a work bench, a swivelchair, a stainless storage rack, and a swivelchair in a room that is about twelve by eight feet.

top THAT!!!

CCC

I would love to have a 'lair' and/or lab and etc etc

we have a 'spare' travel trailer that I'd love to outfit with a few of my macs but I still want the 7300 MediaCart (still haven't decided on possibly using the 6500 though) in the living room...

I'd love to have batteries and an inverter and a solar panel... but the overhead projectros take too much power

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for piccies, see:

http://www.danamania.com/temp/desk

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Nice photomosaic of a nice setup. And so so many feets too!

G4From128k

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THAT is the kind of setup that keeps PAF high!
you have 30-someodd computers but the ones that are setup are set up in such a way that they are so pretty and they have a nice "laberiffic" appearance

Is that an iSub behind yon's iMac..
Are you embarrased about your Apple audio equipment? or is it just cables...
.ME blasts the nonexistant soundsticks

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Just wondering but where do you have your lair at? That seems like the same brick used in schools. You have alot of pizza boxes under there... wow

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BTW, do you have an iSub back there dana?

[breaks into song]
iSub hiding bhind my mac, please come out and sing to me
[/end song mode]

do you have a KVM switch over there with what looks like an 8100 and a 6x0(x)

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Here's Cinemo's

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It's a bird! It's a plane!
No, it's SuperMod?!!!

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BTW ML5: we thought it waS YOU because you usually post "much appreciated" messages about your drinkingnights... and it usually looks like that

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Oh and as for the Quadra...

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And was that you who started the dancing thread as SuperMod?

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