IBM Aptiva 2144 User Manual

Hardware Interfaces
The following peripheral interfaces for adapters, options, and drives are
supported in the system unit.
Table 1-1. Hardware Interfaces
Item Interface
Hard disk drives AT IDE local bus interface (American National
Standards Institute–ANSI)
Input/output (I/O)
adapter cards
Adapters that are IBM AT compatible and operate at
8MHz. VESA local bus adapter cards and Plug and
Play adapter cards are supported.
Diskette drives AT diskette interface
Math coprocessor Intel or equivalent
Video
For refresh rates
and monitor
frequency settings,
see “Refresh Rates
and Monitor
Frequencies” on
page 1-12.
Physical interface is
compatible with the
IBM Personal
System/2 (PS/2)
VGA interface.
Resolution
640x480
640x480
640x480
640x480
800x600
800x600
800x600
1024x768
1024x768
1280x1024
Colors
16
256
65,535
16,777,216
16
256
65,535
16
256
16
Video Memory
512KB
512KB
1024KB
1024KB
512KB
512KB
1024KB
512KB
1024KB
1024KB
Serial 9-pin connector with RS232D electrical interface
Parallel Bidirectional. ECP bidirectional and EPP bidirectional
interfaces are supported.
Pointing device IBM PS/2-compatible mouse
Keyboard device IBM PS/2-compatible enhanced keyboard
CD-ROM drive AT IDE, extended architecture (XA) enabled drive
Sound adapter card MM3: Sound Blaster (Creative Labs, Inc.)
MM4: Aria 16 (Prometheus Products, Inc.)
MWave: Combination Modem/Sound Card
Joystick Industry-standard device
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IBM Aptiva 2144 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	Aptiva 2144
Category	Desktop
Language	English