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Common ports provided by most motherboards are as follows.

Serial port (RS-232)

Ethernet Port (Network interface)

Parallel port. (Not nearly as common any longer)

PS/2 Port (Mice and Keyboards)

USB Ports (Covers most everything these days)

Firewire port (IEEE1394, mostly used for video these days)

eSATA Port (External Hard drive or device interface).

There are others, but those are your most common ports on standard desktop motherboards. Servers are another story.

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