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Aptiva - 2136 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 System Board Hardware Interfaces

Item Interface

Hard disk drives - Two Enhanced IDE mode 4 local bus interface (American National Standards Institute-ANSI)

Input/output (I/O) adapter cards - IBM AT-ISA Plug and Play compatible fax/modem adapter card that operates at 8 MHz bus speed

Diskette drive - AT diskette interface

Video - For refresh rates and monitor frequency settings, see "Refresh Rates and Monitor Frequencies" in the 2136 Hardware Maintenance Manual. Physical interface is compatible with the IBM Personal System/2 (PS/2) VGA interface.

Serial port - 9-pin connector with RS232D electrical interface

Parallel port - 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 - Sound feature is built in system board with the compatibility to Sound Blaster (Creative Labs, Inc.). Wave table feature is resided in Audio-I/O adapter card.

Table 1- 2 Audio-I/O Card Hardware Interfaces

Item Interface

Game Port - Game port interface for joystick, it also supports MIDI feature.

Microphone-in
Speaker-out
Line-inSound I/O interfaces between system board and external peripheral.



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Date Created

10-04-97

Last Updated

10-02-99

Revision Date

10-02-2000

Brand

IBM Aptiva

Product Family

Aptiva

Machine Type

2136

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