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Aptiva - 2134/2176 Hardware interfaces

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Hardware Interfaces
The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are supported in the system unit.

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.
Note: USB available with System Board Type A-2 only.

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

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

Date Created

27-08-96

Last Updated

10-02-99

Revision Date

10-02-2000

Brand

IBM Aptiva

Product Family

Aptiva

Machine Type

2134, 2176

Model

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