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PORTS AND PC COMPONENTS
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VGA cables have 15-pin; 5 top, 5 middle, and 5 bottom.
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Mouse - One of the most commonly used devices for serial ports, usually used with computers with no PS/2 or USB ports.
Serial port connection is easy to identify. It is in the shape of the letter D, is a male connector, and has 9 pins; 5 top, 5 bottom.
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The connection is in the shape of the letter D, is a female connector, and has 25 holes.
The parallel port is found on the back of compatible computers and is a 25-pin computer interface commonly used to connect printers to the computer.
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USB Type-A is the most commonly used port for many peripherals and has a simple, rectangular shape.
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It is a plug-and-play interface that allows a computer to communicate with peripheral and other devices from keyboards and mouse to music player and flash drives.
FireWire is a standard connection type for many electronic devices such as some printers and scanners, external hard drives and other peripherals.
FireWire is a serial bus, meaning that information is transferred one bit at a time.
There is 3 types of connectors, that is 4-pin, 6-pin and 9-pin. All 3 types have a rectangular shape.
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in Local Area Networks (LAN).
Most desktop computers include one built-in Ethernet port for connecting the device to a wired network.
An Ethernet port is a little wider than a phone jack. It is a square with a couple rigid areas at the bottom.
A CPU is the heart and brain of the computer because it handles all instructions it receives from hardware and software running on the computer.
All sorts of devices use a CPU, including desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, and smartphones.
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CPU chip is usually in the shape of a square or rectangle and has one notched corner to help place the chip properly into the CPU socket.
On the bottom of the chip are hundreds of connector pins that plug into each of the corresponding holes in the socket.
Graphics cards include a processing unit, memory, a cooling mechanism and connections to a display device.
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A graphic card connects to the motherboard of a computer system and generates output images to display.
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A hard drive can be used to store any data, including pictures, music, videos, text documents, and any files created or downloaded.
A hard drive is usually the size of a paperback book, but much heavier.
Optical drives retrieve and/or store data on optical discs like CDs, DVDs, and BDs (Blu-ray discs).
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