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Aptiva - 2161 Hardware interfaces

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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

Enhanced IDE mode 4 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

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-ROM drive

AT IDE, extended architecture (XA) enabled drive

Joystick

Industry-standard device



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Hardware Installation/Configuration, Hard Drives, Diskette Drives, Input Devices, Modems, Adapter Cards

Date Created

22-04-97

Last Updated

10-02-99

Revision Date

10-02-2000

Brand

IBM Aptiva

Product Family

Aptiva

Machine Type

2161

Model

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