Keyboard Modification, help/advice ?

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Monkofdoom

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Hello,

I have recently been asked to solve a problem and to be honest I'm completely stuck, I have tried a few things and had no success. I'm hoping someone here may have a solution or have experience in this kind of modification and I would really appreciate your time and advice.

In short, I am trying to connect 1 mouse and 1 keyboard to multiple pc's (although the mouse is optional). In a perfect world it would be a PS2 connector on the keyboard although USB is ok if it is simpler.

Now I appreciate KVM switches exist but they do not do want I require, I need the keyboard to send it's inputs to all the computers at the same time, for example :

I have notepad as the active window on all the computers and type "xy2lk" on the keyboard, then "xy2lk" should be entered into notepad on all the pc's.

In total I need to connect the keyboard (and mouse) to 5 pc's and need a hardware solution rather than software, I'm wondering about modifications to the keyboard wire to connect 5 PS2 connectors but have no idea if this is possible.

Has anyone got any ideas ? :)

Thank you for your time,

- Monk
 
I don't know if this will help or not, and I know you specified a hardware solution.....but... you might take a look at Synergy, you may be able to tweak it so that it will function in the manner you need it to.

That's all I got....
 
Indeed I have looked into Synergy before along with keyclone (another similar application) but ideally I need a hardware only solution.

But thanks for the input :)
 
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