Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!egrunix!steyaert
From: steyaert@egrunix.UUCP (Terry Steyaert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: One Monitor, 2 6computers.
Keywords: Monitor Cables, switching
Message-ID: <128@egrunix.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 89 12:47:26 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, MI
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I run a BBS called The Software Pool off my first Commodore 64
that I ever had ('82 sounds about right.)  Since then, I have
gotten a 1902A monitor, and a Commodore 128.  Currently, I have
the 40 column monitor plugged into the 64, and the 80 in the
128.  The problem is, if I want to run a 64 program on the 128,
or just view the 128 in 40 columns, I must unplug the cord from the
64 and transfer it to the 128.  This is causing wear-and-tear
on the cord and, I am sorry to say, my 40 column monitor ports.

Does someone know of a simple (and preferably inexpensive) to
buy or make a box to switch between the two computers?  After
visiting Radio Shack, they suggest getting another Monitor cable,
buying 2 boxes ($30 bucks apeice) of RCA Din plug switching.
(Need two because each box will switch 2 RCA cables and the monitor
has 3 RCA plugs.

Please help.  The RCA method doesn't seem cost efficient, and
bulky, basically growdy looking.  The local computer shops look
at me like I am a weirdo.

Thanks in advance.

Terry Steyaert        steyaert@unix.secs.oakland.edu

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