3. Making Connections This chapter discusses the connections for • An external floppy drive. • An external monitor. • A printer or other parallel device. • A serial device. • An external PS/2 keyboard or a PS/2 mouse. • A Universal Serial Bus device. • Speakers, microphone, and audio input source. • A port replicator. Connecting Peripheral Devices To connect an external floppy drive If you remove the plug-in floppy drive and use it externally, you can use the module bay for another plug-in module, such as a CD-ROM drive, Zip drive, or secondary battery.
See “Inserting and Removing a Plug-In Module.” • Connect the external floppy-drive cable from the floppy drive to the parallel port of the OmniBook. 29