Techie question, for the smart-at-heart
Apr. 13th, 2010 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo if my monitor has two input sockets, which it does - one being an old-fashioned VGA, and the other something smarter, I dunno what it's called - and I have two computers, which I do: why can't I wire up one computer to one socket and t'other to the other, and use them alternately?
NB, I am not stupid: I am only starting up one computer at a time. But I have physically to disconnect the one that's not powered up, or the monitor does nothing. Which is deeply irritating to me, all this fussing about with pluggings and unpluggings. Grr, I say. Two computers, two cables, two sockets. What's the problem here?
NB, I am not stupid: I am only starting up one computer at a time. But I have physically to disconnect the one that's not powered up, or the monitor does nothing. Which is deeply irritating to me, all this fussing about with pluggings and unpluggings. Grr, I say. Two computers, two cables, two sockets. What's the problem here?