School Hardware Project

[Pc_Madness]

Ok....

Well at school in Info Tech, were studying hardware. Anyway, we get to choose the device that we want to study... so I asked to do Bluetooth, so I cuold learn some stuff about it.....

Anyway, he says if I want to do that, I have to Connectivity... which means every form of cable used by computers I'm guessing.

And, no, I'm not asking your guys to do it for me, but I have a list below of Devices that use Cables/Infra Red/Wireless that I know of and I was kinda hoping you guys would add some more to my list for me, and point me in the direction of good info on them.

Well heres the list

Serial Port
Parrallel Port
USB
Networking Cards (Wireless + Cable)
Modem
Power Cables??
PS/2
Infra Red
Bluetooth

Am I missing anything else?

Thanks in Advance

[JungleMan]

FireWire

I can't think of any others at the moment, I'm too lazy

[Pc_Madness]

Just found another one myself

SCSI Port (Scuzzy to his friends)

[JungleMan]

You forgot IDE...

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Just found another one myself

SCSI Port (Scuzzy to his friends)

I've always heard it pronounced "Scizzy" not "Scuzzy?"

[Pc_Madness]

Whatever, its all the same.

[Gandalf_Grey_]

if your going to include PS 2 why not include ps 1

[Pc_Madness]

Because I didn't know there was a PS/1....

But I mightn't be able to find info on it.

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Whatever, its all the same.

That wasn't my point, poncho.

[Warmaster199]

"PS 2, but not PS 1"... Are you trying to be funny? Whatabout PSX? PS/2 is the only connection. It was designed by IBM and is used for Mice and now keyboards. I believe it was first used in the IBM PS/2 Valuepoint PC(using an i80486DX-33), But I may be wrong.

Devices that use cables... Hmmm... There's the old bus mice that require a special card - my cousin's 286 needed one, but the hard disk's spindle got warped and the drive failed to spin-up. Tsk tsk tsk, a 40MByte Hard disk - finished.

"Scuzzy" is the correct pronounciation of SCSI (Ever watch Reboot? lol! It's Hex's cat or dog type thing...). There is a brand new hard disk technology called "Fibre Channel", capable of 100's of MBytes/sec(Maybe Seagate.com can help?). VERY Expensive stuff... IDE connects Hard disks... Look for the ATAPI Specification documents. A monitor requires a type of cable, correct? There are professional-type monitors for workstations that have a cable of like 30 wires instead of the usual 15 for VGA. There is a new external soundcard out (By Creative Labs?) as well.

You wanted to find information on Bluetooth devices... A DSL or Cable modem is a Bluetooth technology device, correct? Look on http:\\www.national.com (National Semiconductor - NSC) for some information on bluetooth compatible chips, if you wish.

[ricmitch_uk]

You're missing optical cables (aka. S/PDIF) developed by Sony and Philips. Those are pretty standard on the more expensive sound cards now.

normal audio jacks (3.5mm ones)
old-fashioned phono jacks (the round ones with a bit in the middle, kinda like TV jacks)
TV-Jacks (if you have a WinTV card)
VGA
DVI
VIVO
TV-Out (same as phono jacks really)
USB 2 (same as USB 1 and 1.1 but faster)

That's all I think you've missed.

[nabeels786]

could speakers count? plug it into the sound card? if they do then joysticks and gamepads too.

[Gandalf_Grey_]

Originally posted by Warmaster199
[B]"PS 2, but not PS 1"... Are you trying to be funny? Whatabout PSX? PS/2 is the only connection. It was designed by IBM and is used for Mice and now keyboards. I believe it was first used in the IBM PS/2 Valuepoint PC(using an i80486DX-33), But I may be wrong.

There is a precursor to PS/2. It didn't just hope straight to ps/2. According to a website it is called DIN5 however i always just called it PS1 because of its strong resemblance to PS2

[Warmaster199]

Ahh yes... I remember now... My old 486 has that for Keyboard... They don't use that ancient stuff now. 5-pin DIN Keyboard connection... add that to your list - on 486 hardware or older