One of the creepiest experiences of my life just occurred...?

I have enough trouble using one computer at a time.

I can't imagine using two.

I've never used a KVM device before....But after reading a bit of the details in the description provided by your link concerning KVM devices, it appears that it could be quite possible that the KVM device itself enabled you to be able to do that with keyboard number 2 while typing information onto computer number 1..... Perhaps it's one of those advantages that the user or buyer eventually comes upon while using the device which is never known until you actually begin to use it for a while... There are some advantages about certain products that you really never find out about until you've begun to use it for a while or until you become more familiar with it.

How about trying this..... Set up computer one, and use keyboard number two through the KVM device and see if it actually works. .. If it doesn't, then there must be some error within the operating system somewhere, subsequently leading to your ability to operate separate devices at once..

I've noticed that you've mentioned trying it again already..... But if you wish to, try to give it a shot again and if for any reason you don't find any success or a breakthrough, there's nothing else to assume but that there must be an error somewhere internally concerning the components being used...

necro, I know. You should have checked computer 2 to see what had been input, if it was the right password or not, if it had received any input at all (if the exact text wouldn't have been echoed anywhere). Also, you didn't state how tired you were or if you'd done any drugs within (two times as long) a significant time period.

A wrong password is nowhere near as creepy as a correct password would have been. On many keyboards there's an [enter] key on one corner (numpad) and an [esc] key in the other corner. I'd have checked to see what kind of input on keyboard 1 could have also registered as an incorrect password having been entered. A single [enter], [esc], functions keys, or any other key being held down would register as an "entered" password for the password prompt. Not just keyboard, but if mouse input could have also registered as an "enter". I know it doesn't take a stack of papers very thick to jostle a key down enough to register.

I guess I don't understand. You typed in the password on the other computer and it said password was unknown. So what is surprising about that? In general, on a certain level, life is totally illogical anyway. But thanks God you are still perfectly logical.

Observer expectancy effect. The keyboard worked because you expected it to work. :s)

I'm a little miffed that my answer didn't merit comment. I was being sarcastic about the observer expectancy effect, but seriously, sometimes things work only because one expects them to work. Jesus walked on water and Peter was able to walk on water with him only because he had the faith that he could. That was no miracle. Anyone who has the faith that they can walk on water, can do so. Even people who don't believe in God. "He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." The power of faith is available to all who will use it.

A woman touched Jesus cloak and was healed, and Jesus told her she was healed because of her faith (not because the cloak had any power, nor did he say that He healed her). See Mark 5:25-34 and compare Matthew 9:20-22. Faith healing is something ANYONE can do. They only need to have faith.

So too, your experience is a product of belief becoming reality. Word.

Leaning against the desk with a couple of keys pushed in

Are you sure the switch wasn't set the wrong way?

Could one of the wires been connected to the wrong machine?

PS: Strange. I have no answer, then.

If you are telling the truth (& I think you are incidentally) I'd put it down to false memory syndrome. You think it happened because you remember it but the memory is false.

The only reason electronics work is because of quantum mechanics.

It's probably going to happen sometime.

Just a glitch in the Illuminati's system of control