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"Thomas M" wrote in message
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I would like to buy a KVM switch to control several newer computers
with
PS/2 connectors, and if possible and older computer with AT
connectors.
I understand that buying adaptors won't work unless the KVM switch
supports the older AT standards.

Does anyone know of a KVM switch that supports both PS/2 and AT
connections?


If your AT PC uses PS/2 mouse then there's no problem whatsoever, just
use a converter for the keyboard. If your AT PC uses serial mouse then
you may have to use a separate one as PS/2 to serial converters usually
don't work.

Thanks for the reply.

That's pretty much the story I've been hearing. Unfortunately, my AT
system uses a serial mouse. In fact, the mouse is a DB9, but the
connection on the case is an even older DB25, so the mouse uses an
adaptor already. I pretty much figured that going from PS/2 to DB9 to
DB25 just wasn't going to work, but I thought that if the KVM switch
could handle a serial mouse, then buying an adaptor might be worth it,
just to see if it would work, if nothing else.

At this point, I think my best option is to just live with the fact that
I won't be able to use the mouse with the KVM switch. That's okay
because the AT computer will soon be relegated to a file server anyway,
and at that point, I will be able to do everything that I need to do on
the machine via mapped drives.

--Tom