Keyboard with hardware text buffer?

[Eric]

Hi,

I've been looking for a keyboard that has a hardware buffer (for text) that
can be used to copy/paste text across different platforms while using a KVM
switch. The different platforms are running different OS's, so what I'm
really after is something that is done completetly at the hardware level
(i.e., no drivers to handle the copy/paste).

Even better, if it works closely with a mouse. (Keyboard stores text, spits
it out, from mouse gestures.)

Anyone ever come across such an animal?

 

[Mike T.]

Hi,

I've been looking for a keyboard that has a hardware buffer (for text)
that can be used to copy/paste text across different platforms while using
a KVM switch. The different platforms are running different OS's, so what
I'm really after is something that is done completetly at the hardware
level (i.e., no drivers to handle the copy/paste).

Even better, if it works closely with a mouse. (Keyboard stores text,
spits it out, from mouse gestures.)

Anyone ever come across such an animal?

I think the best you are going to find is a KVM with a USB (apart from
keyboard and mouse, possibly for USB printer?) port that is switchable.
Then any cheapo flash drive would be able to store gobs of text files that
would be accessible to any machine running off of the KVM. Most flash
drives don't need "drivers" for any OS that is not more than a few years
old. -Dave

 

[Eric]

I think the best you are going to find is a KVM with a USB (apart from
keyboard and mouse, possibly for USB printer?) port that is switchable.
Then any cheapo flash drive would be able to store gobs of text files that
would be accessible to any machine running off of the KVM. Most flash
drives don't need "drivers" for any OS that is not more than a few years
old. -Dave

Hi,

Thats kinda of what I'm doing now in a more round-about way...

Keeping a text file open to copy/retrieve from over a samba share...

Keyboard hardware buffers sure would be more seamless. I'm surprised that
such an animal doesn't exist.

Cheers

 

[geoff]

Slightly off topic but back when Tech TV was worth watching, they had a show
of what investigators use, etc. These are used for spying but they were
small hardware buffers that fit between the keyboard connector and the
connector on the computer. They record everything typed but they did not
show how the buffered info is accessed.

-g

 

[Nez]

I've been looking for a keyboard that has a hardware buffer (for text) that
can be used to copy/paste text...

The Adesso MCK142PRO keyboard might work. According to the
manufacturer '8KB of keystrokes can be stored in the CMOS S-RAM chip
on keyboard, and it comes with a high-performance microprocessor and
lithium battery for memory backup.'

More information here:

http://www.adesso.com/products_detail.asp?productid=47

Nez

 

[h]

Hi,

I've been looking for a keyboard that has a hardware buffer (for text)
that can be used to copy/paste text across different platforms while using
a KVM switch. The different platforms are running different OS's, so what
I'm

The closest solution is a macro keyboard, as someone mentioned. This will
save you retyping the same text into the different machines.

Bear in mind you won't be able to copy text /from/ any of the OSs - there's
no way to read the text off the screen into the keyboard in any OS.

h

 

[rtoledo]

Hi there,

If the computers are online, you can easily copy texts using
http://dontpad.com

For example, use the url
http://dontpad.com/KVMcopy

cheers,
Rodrigo de Toledo

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> "Eric" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been looking for a keyboard that has a hardware buffer (for text)
>> that can be used to copy/paste text across different platforms while
>> using a KVM switch. The different platforms are running different OS's,
>> so what I'm really after is something that is done completetly at the
>> hardware level (i.e., no drivers to handle the copy/paste).
>>
>> Even better, if it works closely with a mouse. (Keyboard stores text,
>> spits it out, from mouse gestures.)
>>
>> Anyone ever come across such an animal?
>
> I think the best you are going to find is a KVM with a USB (apart from
> keyboard and mouse, possibly for USB printer?) port that is switchable.
> Then any cheapo flash drive would be able to store gobs of text files that
> would be accessible to any machine running off of the KVM. Most flash
> drives don't need "drivers" for any OS that is not more than a few years
> old. -Dave

Hi,

Thats kinda of what I'm doing now in a more round-about way...

Keeping a text file open to copy/retrieve from over a samba share...

Keyboard hardware buffers sure would be more seamless. I'm surprised that
such an animal doesn't exist.

Cheers