Today's PCs have many different connections. In order to input information and have corresponding information outputted by the computer, all of the devices need to be connected to the correct ports....

Today's PCs have many different connections. In order to input information and have corresponding information outputted by the computer, all of the devices need to be connected to the correct ports.

• Examine your home (or lab) computer and identify the various ports associated with it. Click a picture of front and back of the CPU. Attached that pictures in document and labeled each port in picture, define each port and any identifiable characteristics related to port.


• Determine your home (or lab) computer’s processor, System type and installed memory.

For example, a standard serial port is often blue or black with nine pins (one row of five and a row below with four). That particular port is known as a DB-9 port (or DE-9) port and transmits at five volts.