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Chapter 13, Expanding your computer, System 217 – Apple Macintosh PowerBook 145 User Manual

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Expanding Your
Computer System

In this chapter

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Using SCSI devices

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Connecting a modem

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Connecting a printer

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Connecting a mouse or other ADB device

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Using sound input and output devices

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Adding memory to your computer

Using SCSI devices

A SCSI device is any product—including hard disk drives, CD-ROM
drives, scanners, and printers—that communicates with Macintosh
computers by means of a standard electronic interface. (SCSI
stands for Small Computer System Interface.) You can attach up to
six SCSI devices to your computer by linking them together in a
chain that starts at your computer’s SCSI port.

The SCSI port on Macintosh PowerBook computers looks like
this:

SCSI port icon

SCSI port

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