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Aptiva - 2162 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	For refresh rates and monitor frequency settings, see ¿Refresh Rates and Monitor Frequencies— on page 1-9. 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
Sound adapter card	Combination Modem/Sound Card
Joystick	Industry-standard device

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	Date Created	11-04-97
	Last Updated	10-02-99
	Revision Date	10-02-2000
	Brand	IBM Aptiva
	Product Family	Aptiva
	Machine Type	2162
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