Toshiba Portege 7200CTe User Manual page 21

Universal Serial Bus
port
Docking port
I/O Adaptor
Parallel port
Serial port
External diskette
drive port
External monitor port The female, 15-pin, D-shell connector lets you
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A Universal Serial Bus (USB) port enables chain
connection of a number of USB-equipped devices
to one port on your computer. For example, you
might connect a USB-HUB to the computer, then
connect a keyboard to the USB-HUB and a
mouse to the keyboard.
Use the USB drivers that come with external USB
devices. If your operating system does not
support USB, you can still use a USB mouse and
keyboard by setting the USB Legacy
Emulation item in TSETUP to Enabled. Refer
to Chapter 7, Setup and Password Security
details.
This port enables connection of an optional
DVD Network Dock II described in the Options
section.
This device enables connection of parallel, serial
and PS/2 devices.
A Centronics®-compatible parallel interface port
on the I/O Adaptor lets you connect a parallel
printer or other parallel device. This port supports
the Extended Capabilities Port (ECP) standard.
A standard, 9-pin, serial port on the I/O Adaptor
lets you connect such serial devices as a serial
printer, mouse, bar code reader, or Optical
Character Reader (OCR). This port supports
16550 Universal Asynchronous
Receiver/Transmitter (UART) compliant high-
speed data transfer.
An external diskette drive port lets you connect a
diskette drive.
connect to an external video display, which is
recognised automatically. It supports Video
Electronic Standards Association (VESA) Display
Data Channel (DDC) compatible functions.
for
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