Connecting Peripheral Devices
The connectors on your computer enable you to attach peripheral devices to the computer (Figure 10).
Turn off your computer before you connect a peripheral device. Connecting a peripheral device with your computer turned on may seriously damage the device or your computer.
PS/2 Mouse and keyboard port
Docking connector
Parallel port
Serial port
Video port
jack
Microphone and
Floppy
connector USB port
Figure 10. Peripheral Connectors
Table 3 shows the icons located near each connector and tells you the devices that you can attach to the connectors.
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