--- Toby Jaffey toby@earth.li wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:10:32AM -0700, David Freeman wrote: [snip explanation]
I only wondered as I was thinking of having a go at building one.
A friend of mine had a cool idea for one a few years ago. I don't know if this exists yet, but... a box for controlling several machines with one keyboard would be nice where you can select which machine with a special keypress. So obviously, the magic box would need to understand PS/2, probably not too hard with a PIC chip.
We have one on our servers here.
That way you could provide an interface something like "screen" where a hotkey switches to the next session.
I was just going to have a panel os switches and an atmel avr chip. That way I can use C and Gcc.
Thanks
D
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