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From: chymes@geneva.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes)
Subject: What would happen if you put 5 MacIIcx's on the same Desktop Bus?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.031059.8631@engin.umich.edu>
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Organization: Cognitive Science Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Michigan
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 03:10:59 GMT

Greetings again, Macintosh Hardware Gurus!
I a a human<->computer interface researcher at The U of Michigan and I
I want to connect several Macintosh keyboards and mice to one
computer, and have them work simutainously. You can't simply daisy
chain the keyboards together because thier is no place to connect the
mouse if you connect the keyboards together.
One of the things I can try is to daisy chain several Macs, and use
the Macs as Tee connectors. I don't care what happens on the other
Macs, I just want several people typing on the main Mac. Can this be
done? Will thier be electronics/hardware problems?
Can I leave the other Macs powered off? Or does the Mac need to be
powered to allow signals to go from one ADB port to the other?

Thanks in advance for the info,

Charles Hymes aka Charweed Hymerfan (The Dude)
chymes@csmil.umich.edu

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