Share Mac monitor with PC tower?

A friend is offering to give us a PC computer (used, but still good), and I was wondering if I could set up the PC tower alongside my Power Mac G5 tower and somehow share the mac monitor that I already have.  Any ideas?  Not savvy in this area, so not sure if it's possible, but I'm hoping someone can help steer me in the right direction. 
Thanks!

Hi-
All that you need is a KVM to connect both machines to, allowing both to use the same keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Aten KVMs
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