[Gllug] [ OT ] Raritan Z-series Z4200U KVM switch

Ian Scott mriscott at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Apr 14 07:49:14 UTC 2004


> One tip I read was to gut old dead keyboards for their innards.
> Loop the guts up with the cable and plug in. Saves space in racks.
> Also, as I recall, Black Box sell dummy PS/2 keyboard plugs which fool
> the machine at boot time.

I happen to know that plugging in a PS2 mouse to a keyboard socket 
fools at least my PC into booting up. (and it took ages on the phone to
my wife when "the computer wouldn't work" to sort that one out!) 

Mice are smaller than keyboards .... 



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