Expansion Capabilities - Texas Instruments Extensa 660 Series Maintenance Manual

Port Assignment
External VGA Port
Serial Port
Parallel Port
PS/2 Port
DC-IN Connector
Fast Infrared Port
Audio In/Out, Mic In Jacks
Expansion Bus

1.3.6 Expansion Capabilities

In addition to the external ports, the Extensa 660 Series Notebooks are designed with
a variety of expansion features that permit substantial functionality and performance
upgrades over the life of the product. The expansion capabilities built into the notebook
are summarized in Table 1-4 and described in greater detail in the following paragraphs.
Table 1-4 Extensa 660 Expansion Features Summary
Expansion Feature
Media Bay CD-ROM Drive
Media Bay 3.5-inch Diskette Drive Module
Memory Expansion Features
Flash ROM (hardware feature)
PCMCIA Slots
Advanced PCI Slot
Port Replicator
These expansion features are described in greater detail in the following paragraphs.
1-10 General Description
Table 1-3 660 Series External Ports
15-pin Female connector used to attach an external SVGA monitor to the
notebook.
9-pin Male connector used to attach an RS-232 serial device to the notebook.
25-pin Female connector used to attach a bidirectional printer or an external
floppy disk drive (requires special cable for use with floppy disk drive).
6-pin Circular connectors used to attach external keyboard/mouse devices to
the notebook.
Power in connector used to attach the output of the AC adapter to the
notebook.
Fast Infrared Port (4 M/b) used for wireless communications between the
notebook and an FIR-equipped device such as keyboard, another notebook,
printer, etc.
Stereo audio line inputs, stereo line outputs and external microphone input
120-pin PCI Bus that supports an external Port Replicator
Reads from Audio CD, Photo CD or CD ROM
Provides convenient storage on a removable disk format
Main memory can be expanded from 16 MB to a maximum of 80 MB using
one soDIMM module (16 MB, 32 MB, or 64 MB configurations).
Permits new versions of BIOS to be downloaded into Flash ROM without
physically having to replace the ROMs
Allows installation of any optional PCMCIA device such as speakerphone
modems, Ethernet
Provisions for installing one Advanced PCI Card (accessible through a
compartment door on the bottom of the unit).
Device that attaches to the Expansion Bus on the 660 Series Notebook and
provides the connectivity with quick removal/installation feature required for
combination desktop and portable environments.
Description
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cards, and full motion video cards.