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Connecting equipment for special purposes – Apple Macintosh Performa 6400 Series User Manual

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Connecting Equipment for Special Purposes

This chapter contains information that is useful only if you want to connect
your computer to networking equipment or to a TV or video equipment. (For
information on connecting TV or video equipment, see the last section of this
chapter and see Chapter 9, “Installing Expansion Cards.”)

Connecting to a network

This section contains information only for people whose computers are
connected to other computers through a local area network. A local area
network lets computers communicate with each other—for example, in
businesses, it is what enables more than one computer to share a printer and
access documents on a central, shared server.

Note: Using a modem is not the same as being connected to a local area
network. If you have a modem and the appropriate software that makes use of
it, you already have access to online services. If your computer came with a
modem, see the appropriate manuals that came with your computer for more
information about using online services.

Read this chapter only if you want

to connect to a local area network,

to a TV, or to video equipment

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