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Friday afternoons growing up meant a trip to the video store. It was an utter thrill, like a little weekly Christmas, where my mom would turn my sister and me loose among the laminated, empty VHS boxes to pick out something to rent for the weekend. And as a rare treat, she would sometimes relent to our whining and let us take home the Holy Grail of rentals: a Sega console. A teenage Video Update employee would retrieve it for us and make sure that the controllers and cords were all accounted for in a massive,…

.What is a KVM? A KVM enables you to switch between two or more computers, like your home desktop and a work laptop, with the mere touch of a button. You don't need to jump between two very different displays; a pair of quite dissimilar keyboards; or a scratch pad and a mouse. If you're constantly jumping from one computer to another, KVMs are very handy. I've been using them for decades now. They used to be extremely expensive. I once had an eight-PC switch that cost me over two grand. Today, in no small part…