[muglo] Re: Can I connect a PC tower to my existing keyboard, video, mouse

If the video is a standard VGA/SVGA plug and it fits in the KVM then  
it's the same as the K and M, you are switching all three.

The absolute cheapest solution - unplug your mouse . unplug your  
video, unplug your keyboard from the Mac.  Plug in your mouse, plug  
in your video, and plug in your keyboard to the PC.  If video  
connectors are the same no issues there otherwise an adapter (but I  
don't' think this is required) then figuring out what the 'window'  
key' or 'control' key are and continue on your merry way.  The 'alt'  
key is option on the Mac.  control I think is control but the apple  
comnamd key is not he same as the windows window key.  If you didn't  
use the latter before moving to a Mac then it won't be an issue.

Next cheapest solution  - buy a cheap used windows keyboard and plug  
that into the PC.  Use unplug and replug your video and mouse from  
the Mac
Next more expensive - buy both a cheap used windows mouse and  
keyboard and unplug and replug the video

Next  is likely a kVM.

Martin

On May 3, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Theresa Roth wrote:

> Is there a way to connect the existing Keyboard, monitor and mouse  
> without a
> KVM switch? A cheaper solution?
>
> On 03/05/09 3:36 PM, "Gerhard Kuhn" <gerhardk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The mouse and keyboard should not be a problem using a KVM switch as
>> long as the PC is new enough to support USB, I don't know how the
>> video end of it would work though.
>>
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