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There are two possible solutions here; the clean one, the recommended one,
the one that will produce absolutely the ultimate in performance, build
strong bodies twelve ways, and make you the envy of your one-monitor friends,
is something called a "distribution amplifier," which takes a single input
but provides 2 (or more) outputs.  Several companies (Covid and Extron come
to mind - check your local AV distributor, or the Thomas Register) come to
mind.  These things are available for up to and beyond 1280x1024 workstation
display timing.  (You'll need something like 100 MHz bandwidth *minimum* for
an acceptable image at this resolution.)

The quick-and-dirty kludge of a solution is to open up one of the monitors
and remove the 75 ohm termination on all the video inputs (assuming that
your monitor doesn't simply have a switch that lets you go from "75" to
"HI Z" or something like that), and then connect to this monitor with BNC
"T" connectors to allow you to connect a cable to the second monitor, which
then goes at the end of the whole string.  It works almost as well, but now
you're stuck with either using two monitors all the time, or sticking an
external terminating resistor on the "T" if you're not using the second unit.


Bob Myers  KC0EW   Hewlett-Packard Co.      |Opinions expressed here are not
                   User Interface Tech. Div.|those of my employer or any other
myers@fc.hp.com    Fort Collins, Colorado   |sentient life-form on this planet.