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Anyone know what the unused round port is in original iMac?
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I was installing a 256 card in my Blueberry today, hadn't taken the thing out of the shell for 5 years!
It was fun. But, when it came time to unhook the connectors (HD, Monitor power, etc. inside, I noticed an unused connection port I never knew existed! It is round, and looks like a larger S-Video type female port next to the others. What else could I hook up there? Is it for SCSI?
Interesting...
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I believe it's the port for the infrared (IrDA) transceiver that was built into the Rev A and B iMacs and removed in the 5-flavors models.
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(Last edited by tooki; Apr 24, 2005 at 11:54 AM.
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Yes, it is the IrDa port. As someone who upgraded about 5 diffent iMac's memory is a short amount of time I became familier with that. It was removed in later revisions, but you could network iMacs (very slowly, and not reliable) using it in the Rev A days....
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Well, IrDA wasn't designed for networking, but it works great for Palm syncing. Too bad Apple dropped it from the PowerBooks (since my Clié has IrDA but not Bluetooth).
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Wow, cool stuff everyone!
Thanks for the info.
Guess my Palm USB sync cradle works just fine.
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