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Sharing one PC with two monitors, Keyboard, Mice.

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aerofx

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A few years back I saw a PCI card that allows you to hook another monitor, keyboard, and mouse to it that allows you to share one PC as if they were two. Now I don't know if those type of products died out because doing a google search doesn't yield many results for me. If anybody knows what it's called or type of peripheral it is, please post. Thanks!
 
He's looking for concurrent sessions in different physical areas, all on the same computer. So that, say, he can play a game on one monitor/keyboard and have his wife do web browsing on another monitor/keyboard. A KVM isn't going to help him there. I remember what the OP is talking about, some type of card that allows for such tasks but that was win98 days. Anyways, you could set up win2003 server or win2k server and have terminal services operational -- though you need separate terminals or low level computers at least, to interact with the system. If that system isn't some kind of powerhouse then I question starting such a task. Individual computers are just so cheap these days it's questionable to purchase hardware or software specific to these tasks.
 
Ahh, I see I was mistaken. I didn't read the OP close enough.
No a KVM won't help here, and I haven't seen any of the PCI type cards you are referring to for years.
 
Originally posted by: vegetation
He's looking for concurrent sessions in different physical areas, all on the same computer. So that, say, he can play a game on one monitor/keyboard and have his wife do web browsing on another monitor/keyboard. A KVM isn't going to help him there. I remember what the OP is talking about, some type of card that allows for such tasks but that was win98 days. Anyways, you could set up win2003 server or win2k server and have terminal services operational -- though you need separate terminals or low level computers at least, to interact with the system. If that system isn't some kind of powerhouse then I question starting such a task. Individual computers are just so cheap these days it's questionable to purchase hardware or software specific to these tasks.
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Right on the money. I have the X2 4400+, 2gb ram, and bfg 6800 ultra so I figured that might be enough. The wife will be using word processor while I use Maya. We have very little space in our room so we're trying to cut down on any clutter; if the device I'm looking at is around 500 or so, I might just get her a cheap laptop. Any ideas on what it might be called?
 
I remember seeing it back in late 90s, I think it call bubby. And quick google search found me this. I don't think the company still make it.

bubby
 
Technically you could buy one of the cheapest thin clients (ie. www.neoware.com), Linux based thin client for 199$ and if you're running 2k or 2k3 server you can RDP in and run whatever. Or if you're not running either of those OS's maybe that link from above can handle the software side of it?
 
oooh, thank you so much. I think that's it. Wonder if it works with Windows XP.

edit: I'm not really computer savvy so I just want to pop in the card, install the software, and have it work. Never really ran a server or anything like that.
 
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