Connecting two keyboards to the same Mac Pro

I want to connect an additional set of keyboard and mouse to my Mac Pro in order to use my computer at home and office

Both work but not at exactly same time.
Both work, and both DO work at exactly the same time. The Mac uses "all ports active", and does not have a simple way to shut off 'the other one'. You could literally type alternate characters on alternate keyboards, or use one mouse for horizontal and one for vertical at the same time.
Readers have discovered this when they left the pen too close to their "unused" Wacom tablets, and vibrations of their desks caused 'spurious' input. Although their hand was not on it, that did not preclude its producing input.

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