[SunRescue] using a Sun monitor on two machines

[Tim Hauber]

rescue at sunhelp.org writes:
>Question - off topic sort of...
>
>I want to use a rescued (see - not that off topic) Sun GDM-20#20 monitor 
>simultaneously on my Sun and a PC (with adapter cable.)  While the
>machines are 
>turned on, can I just unplug it from one and plug it into another, or is
>this a 
>Very Bad Idea?
>
>As a side note - I do this all the time with a PC monitor between two PCs.
>

My personal experience has been that monitors are very friendly about hot
swapping, the only problems I have seen are with new "green" monitors not
recognizing that there is a signal present, which means it doesn't work,
but also doesn't blow anything up.  I have never used a GDM-20

>I guess I should buy a good switch for this - found one at Blackbox, but
>it is 
>expensive...

Isn't everything at Blackbox?
>
>
>Paul Phillips

Tim