IBM 2142, 2140 manual Hardware Interfaces

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 IDE local bus interface (American National Standards
	Institute–ANSI)

Input/output (I/O) Adapters that are IBM AT-ISA compatible and operate

adapter cards 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 1-13.

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/DVD-ROM

drive

AT

IDE,

extended

architecture

(XA)

enabled

drive

Sound adapter cardMM3:

Sound

Blaster

(Creative Labs,

Inc.)

MM4:

Aria 16 (Prometheus Products, Inc.)

Mwave: Combination

Modem/Sound

Card

Joystick

Industry-standard

device

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