Laptop connectors

[Guest ms]

I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486.

 

There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the

usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem.

 

Does the laptop modem jack look different?

 

Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors?

 

Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility, how do

you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive?

 

ms

[Guest John Dulak]

Re: Laptop connectors

 

ms wrote:

> I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486.

>

> There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the

> usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem.

>

> Does the laptop modem jack look different?

>

> Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors?

>

> Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility, how do

> you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive?

>

> ms

 

Ms:

 

A 486 probably doesn't HAVE a built in modem. See if you can find the

specs on the Dell site.

 

John

 

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[Guest dadiOH]

Re: Laptop connectors

 

ms wrote:

> Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk

> possibility, how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive?

 

???????

 

Safe mode requires neither floppy nor CD drive. Nor boot disk. One

pushes the appropriate keys when booting to load Windows in safe mode.

What those keys are I cannot say as I enabled a boot menu so I merely

have to select it should I want it.

 

In other words, you get to safe mode just as you do on your other

computer(s) though the key combo may be different, don't know.

 

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[Guest ms]

Re: Laptop connectors

 

ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5jtaqoFnkefU1@mid.individual.net:

> I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486.

>

> There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the

> usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem.

>

> Does the laptop modem jack look different?

>

> Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors?

>

> Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility,

> how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive?

>

> ms

 

Thanks to all, still need a laptop image to identify typical connectors.

Will search for it.

 

ms

[Guest RobertVA]

Re: Laptop connectors

 

ms wrote:

> ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5jtaqoFnkefU1@mid.individual.net:

>

>> I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486.

>>

>> There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as the

>> usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem.

>>

>> Does the laptop modem jack look different?

>>

>> Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying connectors?

>>

>> Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility,

>> how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive?

>>

>> ms

>

> Thanks to all, still need a laptop image to identify typical connectors.

> Will search for it.

>

> ms

 

Most of that vintage would probably have a male nine pin connector for a

serial port, a female 25 pin connector for parallel port, a round female

six pin external keyboard port and a fifteen pin female VGA port. There

may be proprietary ports for an external drive and/or a docking port.

Many manufacturers would mold little icons representing the devices to

connect adjacent to the port. A lot of notebooks also had slots for PC

card devices like modems and Ethernet cards.

[Guest ms]

Re: Laptop connectors

 

RobertVA <robert_c72athotmail@invalid.com> wrote in

news:u1rfM1O7HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

> ms wrote:

>> ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5jtaqoFnkefU1@mid.individual.net:

>>

>>> I saw a used old laptop at a garage sale, a Dell 486.

>>>

>>> There are many jacks around the case, but I don't recognize any as

>>> the usual telephone jacks I see on a desktop modem.

>>>

>>> Does the laptop modem jack look different?

>>>

>>> Is there a URL to a image of a typical laptop identifying

>>> connectors?

>>>

>>> Also, with a missing floppy disk drive, so no boot disk possibility,

>>> how do you get into Safe Mode with just a CD drive?

>>>

>>> ms

>>

>> Thanks to all, still need a laptop image to identify typical

>> connectors. Will search for it.

>>

>> ms

>

> Most of that vintage would probably have a male nine pin connector for

> a serial port, a female 25 pin connector for parallel port, a round

> female six pin external keyboard port and a fifteen pin female VGA

> port. There may be proprietary ports for an external drive and/or a

> docking port. Many manufacturers would mold little icons representing

> the devices to connect adjacent to the port. A lot of notebooks also

> had slots for PC card devices like modems and Ethernet cards.

>

Thanks for that, I did not find an image of all the connectors, but in

searching it is as John Dulak said even for later laptops, the comments

were all about ethernet, I never saw anything about Dun.

 

ms