Laptop connectors

[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

 

[John Dulak]

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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[dadiOH]

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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[ms]

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

 

[RobertVA]

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.

 

[ms]

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