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CHAPTER 3: Installation
– It needs to have a PC/AT or PS/2 style keyboard
port (a round 5-pin DIN or 6-pin mini-DIN
connector). To attach a 5-pin DIN PC/AT
keyboard port, you’ll need a keyboard-port
adapter such as product code FA212.
–
It needs to have a PS/2 style mouse port (a round
6-pin mini-DIN connector)
or a serial mouse port
(a D-shaped DB9 or DB25 connector with nine
or twenty-five pins respectively). To attach a serial
mouse port, you’ll need coaxial CPU-Extension
Cable (EHN408)—standard cable doesn’t carry
all of the necessary wires—and a mouse-port
adapter such as product code FA312.
• Some older IBM ThinkPad
®
laptops handle mouse
data differently from other computers, in a way
that the Spectra doesn’t support. So we don’t
recommend attaching older ThinkPad computers
to the Spectra, either directly or through docking
stations. Some newer models should work OK, but
there’s no good way to tell other than by trial and
error. (You can’t damage your equipment by
trying—if you have the wrong kind of ThinkPad,
it just won’t work.)
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