Peripheral Ports and Connectors

In order for a computer to be useful and have the most functionality, there must be a way to get the data into and out of it.

Many different ports are available for this purpose.

Briefly, the seven most common types of ports you will see on a computer are serial, parallel,
Universal Serial Bus (USB), video, Ethernet, sound in/out, and game ports.

1. DC power in
2. Analog modem RJ-11
3. Ethernet NIC RJ-45
4. S-video out
5. DVI-D out
6. SVGA out
7. Parallel (on top)
8. Standard serial
9. Mouse (on top)
10. Keyboard
11. S/PDIF (out)
12. USB

Peripheral Ports and Connectors




Game Port