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New mice are neither serial or parallel, they are PS/2...
So, if you look at the back of the computer it has a different socket than serial or parallel.
Only older mice was serial or parallel.
P.S. Sorry for my bad English, I don't know if socket is the correct word, but...
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∙ 11y agoA mouse is a peripheral device which can be plugged into a serial port on older PC's. Nowadays mouse's are plugged in via USB connection.
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What is faster serial port or parallel port?
parallel port if you want to know why go to it140 if you know what that is.
Is prn a serial port?
No. Its a parallel port
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Is a s-video port considered serial or parallel?
S-Video is an analog port, not digital, so "serial" and "parallel" terms do not apply to it.
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USB port, serial port, parallel port.
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parallel and serial port
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Serial mouse to a serial port. Display device (Monitor) to the VGA port. Speakers to the audio out port. Mic to the audio in/line in port. Pen drive, Mouse, Printer, Keyboard, Sound cards, Memory cards, Cameras etc to the USB port. Power cord to the SMPS port. LAN cable to the Ethernet port. Dot matrix printer to the parallel port.
List three types of ports that are often found coming directly off the motherboard to be used by external devices?
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give the difference between serial port and parallel port
Apart from input device Mouse is a serial device or parallel device?
serial device
Can a serial port send data over a longer distance than a parallel port?
Usually, because a serial port doesn't have to deal with the problem of signal skew that can jumble the data on a parallel port and gets worse proportional to distance.
What are the parts of a computer rear panel?
PS/2 connector (green: mouse, violet: keyboard) Serial Communications port VGA port Parallel port USB ports Audio connectors (pink: microphone, green: speaker, blue: line in) LAN port
