Hardware interfaces – IBM Aptiva 2142 User Manual
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Hardware Interfaces
The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are
supported in the system unit.
Table 1-1. Hardware Interfaces
Item
Interface
Hard disk drives
IDE local bus interface (American National Standards
Institute–ANSI)
Input/output (I/O)
adapter cards
Adapters that are IBM AT-ISA compatible and operate
at 8 MHz. PCI local bus adapter cards and Plug and
Play adapter cards are supported.
Diskette drives
AT diskette interface
Video
For refresh rates and monitor frequency settings, see
“Refresh Rates and Monitor Frequencies” on page 1-13.
Physical interface is compatible with the IBM Personal
System/2 (PS/2) VGA interface.
Serial
9-pin connector with RS232D electrical interface
USB
Universal Serial Bus. High speed serial bus designed
for USB protocol.
Parallel
Bidirectional. ECP bidirectional and EPP bidirectional
interfaces are supported.
Pointing device
IBM PS/2-compatible mouse
Keyboard device
IBM PS/2-compatible enhanced keyboard
CD/DVD-ROM drive
AT IDE, extended architecture (XA) enabled drive
Sound adapter card
MM3:
Sound Blaster (Creative Labs, Inc.)
MM4:
Aria 16 (Prometheus Products, Inc.)
Mwave:
Combination Modem/Sound Card
Joystick
Industry-standard device
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