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disk, tape, or Zip drive.
3. Bay 3.
This drive bay can hold a 3.5-inch slim drive, such
as a diskette, hard disk, tape, or Zip drive.
4. Bay 4.
This drive bay is designed for a 3.5-inch diskette
drive.
5. Adapter card connectors.
Adapter card connectors are sockets on the
system board into which adapter cards are
installed. Your system board has four adapter card
connectors. One of these connectors is for an ISA
card and three are for PCI cards. Since two of
these connectors are shared (one ISA and one
PCI next to it), only three cards (excluding the AGP
video card) can be installed at any time.
6. Adapter cards.
Adapter cards add to your computer's capabilities.
7. Adapter card slots.
Adapter card slots are the holes in the back of the
tower that permit external access to adapter cards.
8. System board.
The system board is the main circuit board in your
computer. It contains the processor, also known as
the central processing unit (CPU), and the system
battery. It also contains sockets for memory
modules, connectors for adapter cards, and
connectors for the cables that carry data to and
from drives.
9. Power supply.
The power supply provides the electricity that is
used by the other hardware components in your
computer. This model may come with a 95
power supply.
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