Alphas in a machine room

Doug DeJulio (ddj@aisb.org)
Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:57:58 -0400 (EDT)

At my most recent employer's we had a bunch of Novell servers in a machine
room. Rather than having a monitor, mouse and keyboard on each one, they had
this big box with a row of buttons on it. It had a monitor, mouse and
keyboard, and cables ran from it to the rack of Novell boxes to plug into
*their* monitor, mouse and keyboard ports. You'd hit a button on the box to
pick which PC you were talking too.

Has anyone tried a similar thing with UDBs or other Alphas? If it works, it
might be a good solution to the machine room problem (a monitor and keyboard
for each machine takes up too much room, but the boxes behave funny if booted
up with no keyboard plugged in).

The only reason I doubt it'd work is that I've noticed my UDB treats keyboards
and mice a little differently than my wife's Intel box does. I've got an AT
keyboard with an AT to PS/2 adapter, and it works on the Intel box but not the
UDB. Similarly, the 3-button mouse that came with my UDB only works as a
2-button mouse on the Intel box.

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Doug DeJulio                         | mailto:ddj@aisb.org
Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria | http://www.aisb.org/~ddj/



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