IBM Dock I Introduction, Multimedia-Oriented, Portable-Oriented Features, Cable Management

Title: C74AMST CreationDate: 06/23/93 17:09:07

Chapter 1. Introduction

The Dock I provides expandability for your IBM ThinkPad notebook models (hereinafter referred to as the computer), while providing the same usability as a desktop computer system. Option cables connected or disconnected to your computer can be connected to the Dock I so you can easily carry your computer.

Because the Dock I is designed to be both multimedia-oriented and portable, for example, you can give presentations at a customer’s office more effectively with the full-motion images and stereo sound of multimedia material.

The Dock I has enhanced security features to protect it from being used by unauthorized persons.

The following summarizes the standard features or options on the

Dock I.

Multimedia-Oriented	Audio and	Speaker-in jacks
Features	Video	Audio-out jacks
		A Headphone jack
		Stereo speakers
		A less than 1-inch-high drive location for a
		CD-ROM player
Portable-Oriented	Warning function to tolerate most of the inadvertent
Features	miss-operations when docking and undocking the computer.
	Handle
	Security lock
	Security hook
Cable Management	An external diskette drive connector
Features	A keyboard/numeric keypad connector
	A mouse/pointing device connector
	A parallel connector
	A serial connector

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