Chapter 13

Expanding Your Computer System

In this chapter

mUsing SCSI devices

mConnecting a modem

mConnecting a printer

mConnecting a mouse or other ADB device

mUsing sound input and output devices

mAdding memory to your computer

Using SCSI devices

A SCSI device is any product—including hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, scanners, and printers—that communicates with Macintosh computers by means of a standard electronic interface. (SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface.) You can attach up to six SCSI devices to your computer by linking them together in a chain that starts at your computer’s SCSI port.

The SCSI port on Macintosh PowerBook computers looks like this:

SCSI port

SCSI port icon

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