Re: FN-FORUM: Multi monitor display cards

date posted 16th January 2004 15:07

> They have 2 large desks with 8 monitors on. A person sits at a each
> desk and
> the problems stem from there really, there are scrambles for *the*
> mouse and
> when it becomes buried under paper all hell breaks loose! If you are not
> sharing (like Liam) I can see no reason to change but it does seem an
> antiquated solution? I would like to achieve more individual control
> without
> having to purchase a new workstation.

Well, to be honest, it sounds like it's not a hardware problem. 2 PCs with
4 heads each, yes? That's still relatively expensive and hard to do.
Someone at some time spent money, time & effort on building that.

Now, it sounds like instead of 2 power users needing lots of information,
they have multiple less demanding ones. So what they really need are more
PCs, maybe 4 dualhead ones or 8 ordinary single-head machines.

I don't see any obvious technological solution to this.

I can think of some horrible hairy ones. Several companies sell gadgets
allowing you to connect a 2nd set of monitor, keyboard & mouse to a single
PC, making it a dual-user system. However, it's cheaper & much easier to
buy a 2nd cheapo PC.

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Liam Proven • http://lproven.livejournal.com