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Puter - Ports

Ports are physical docking points or programmatic points that allow external devices to connect to a computer or communicate over a network. Some key ports include serial ports for older mice and modems, parallel ports for printers, PS/2 ports for older keyboards and mice, USB ports for many modern devices, VGA ports for monitors, power connectors, FireWire ports for multimedia devices, Ethernet ports for networking, and game ports for joysticks.

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Puter - Ports

Ports are physical docking points or programmatic points that allow external devices to connect to a computer or communicate over a network. Some key ports include serial ports for older mice and modems, parallel ports for printers, PS/2 ports for older keyboards and mice, USB ports for many modern devices, VGA ports for monitors, power connectors, FireWire ports for multimedia devices, Ethernet ports for networking, and game ports for joysticks.

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Computer - Ports

Computer - Ports
• A port is a physical docking point using which an external device can be
connected to the computer. It can also be programmatic docking point through
which information flows from a program to the computer or over the Internet.
• Characteristics of Ports
• A port has the following characteristics −
• External devices are connected to a computer using cables and ports.
• Ports are slots on the motherboard into which a cable of external device is
plugged in.
Examples of external devices attached via
ports
• Examples of external devices
attached via ports are the mouse,
keyboard, monitor, microphone,
speakers, etc.
important types of ports −
1. Serial Port 8. Modem Port
2. Parallel Port 9. Ethernet Port
3. PS/2 Port 10. Game Port
4. Universal Serial Bus (or USB) Port 11. Digital Video Interface, DVI port
5. VGA Port 12. Sockets
6. Power Connector
7. Firewire Port
Serial Port
• Used for external modems and older computer mouse
• Two versions: 9 pin, 25 pin model
• Data travels at 115 kilobits per second
Parallel Port
• Used for scanners and printers
• Also called printer port
• 25 pin model
• IEEE 1284-compliant Centronics port
PS/2 Port
• Used for old computer keyboard and mouse
• Also called mouse port
• Most of the old computers provide two PS/2 port, each for the mouse and
keyboard
• IEEE 1284-compliant Centronics port
Universal Serial Bus (or USB) Port
• It can connect all kinds of external USB devices such as external hard
disk, printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard, etc.
• It was introduced in 1997.
• Most of the computers provide two USB ports as minimum.
• Data travels at 12 megabits per seconds.
• USB compliant devices can get power from a USB port.
VGA Port
• Connects monitor to a computer's video card.
• It has 15 holes.
• Similar to the serial port connector. However, serial port connector has
pins, VGA port has holes.
Power Connector port
• Three-pronged plug.
• Connects to the computer's power cable that plugs into a power bar or
wall socket.
Fire wire Port
• Transfers large amount of data at very fast speed.
• Connects camcorders and video equipment to the computer.
• Data travels at 400 to 800 megabits per seconds.
• Invented by Apple.
• It has three variants: 4-Pin FireWire 400 connector, 6-Pin FireWire 400
connector, and 9-Pin FireWire 800 connector.
Modem Port
• Connects a PC's modem to the telephone network.
Ethernet Port
• Connects to a network and high speed Internet.
• Connects the network cable to a computer.
• This port resides on an Ethernet Card.
• Data travels at 10 megabits to 1000 megabits per seconds depending upon
the network bandwidth.
Game Port
• Connect a joystick to a PC
• Now replaced by USB
Digital Video Interface, DVI port
• Connects Flat panel LCD monitor to the computer's high-end video
graphic cards.
• Very popular among video card manufacturers.
Sockets
• Sockets connect the microphone and speakers to the sound card of the
computer.

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