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    focused on making an ASIC for the display adapter. Early on, the ASIC display adapter was named the Television Interface Adaptor (TIA). The cost of RAM remained...
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    Color Television Interface Adaptor (CTIA) and its successor Graphic Television Interface Adaptor (GTIA) are custom chips used in the Atari 8-bit computers...
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    and DFP is accomplished typically through passive adapters that provide appropriate physical interfaces, as all three standards use the same DDC/EDID handshaking...
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    the Digital Visual Interface (DVI). No signal conversion is necessary, nor is there a loss of video quality when a DVI-to-HDMI adapter is used.: §C  The...
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    SFP56 respectively. Using a simple adapter or a special direct attached cable it is possible to connect those interfaces together using just one lane instead...
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    Dongle (redirect from Dongle adapter)
    game controllers have special adapters GPS receivers SD card readers Flash drives Mobile broadband modems Network interface controllers Older cars that...
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    card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card...
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    (HDMI), through the use of either active or passive adapters. It is the first display interface to rely on packetized data transmission, a form of digital...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Analog telephony adapter. An analog telephone adapter (ATA) or FXS gateway is a device for connecting traditional...
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  • JTAG (redirect from JTAG interface)
    JTAG adapter, which may need to handle issues like level shifting and galvanic isolation. The adapter connects to the host using some interface such as...
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    PC Card (redirect from PC Card adapter)
    than a separate adapter but can block the other slot where slots are present in a pair. Some Type II cards, most notably network interface and modem cards...
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  • Mobile High-Definition Link (category High-definition television)
    audio/video interface that allows the connection of smartphones, tablets, and other portable consumer electronics devices to high-definition televisions (HDTVs)...
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    adapter converts the device's native video stream to DisplayPort/HDMI/VGA, allowing it to be displayed on an external display, such as a television set...
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    connectors. Various adapters can be purchased to convert VGA to other connector types. One common variety is a DVI to VGA adapter, which is possible because...
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    character shapes with EGA and better display adapters, giving some basic low resolution icons and graphical interface elements, including an arrow (instead of...
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    The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's...
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    sometimes possible to modify the SCART adapter cable to allow full S-Video compatibility. Audio and video interfaces and connectors RF connector Composite...
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  • Player Adapter was designed to allow up to four players to play certain Game Boy games on the original Game Boy. The Game Boy Four Player Adapter consists...
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    Smart Television media player Smart Television player Streaming media box Streaming media player Streaming video player Wireless Media Adapter YouTube...
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    IBM PS/2 (redirect from IBM Image Adapter/A)
    of Capitalism - covers all PS/2 models and adapters PS/2 keyboard pinout PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Interfacing at the Wayback Machine (archived August 10,...
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    IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late...
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    Expansion card (redirect from Adapter card)
    In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can...
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    often include peripherals, interface cards, and daughterboards: sound cards, video cards, network cards, host bus adapters, TV tuner cards, IEEE 1394...
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    network adapters. USB connectors have been increasingly replacing other types of charging cables for portable devices. USB connector interfaces are classified...
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    drivers operate in many different environments. Drivers may interface with: Printers Video adapters Network cards Sound cards PC chipsets Local buses of various...
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    more competitive price of around £100. The adapters connected to the BBC Micro's 1 MHz bus interface. Adapters could be daisy-chained, allowing more than...
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    system uses standard community antenna television (CATV) coaxial cable and microprocessor based Bus Interface Units (BIUs) to connect subscriber computers...
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    external power adapter or USB port using a USB cable. Video-capable Chromecasts plug into the HDMI port of a high-definition television or monitor, while...
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  • available on television sets, soundbars, set-top boxes and digital media players. A successor to Google TV, it features a user interface designed around...
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  • PlayCable (category Television channels and stations established in 1980)
    receiver, digital interface, 512 word firmware ROM and 8K of RAM for game storage. When turned on, the firmware within the PlayCable adapter tuned its FM receiver...
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