Acer Dock V, Quick Reference Manual

A Tour of DockMate V

3

Ports

DockMate V has a host of ports and jacks found at the back of the 
unit.

Rear ports and their descriptions are listed below:  

7

Emergency eject

Insert a pin here to manually eject the computer 
from DockMate V.  Use this only if pulling on the 
dock release lever does not eject the computer.

8

AcerLink Bay

Houses a removable connection module.  These 
include the following: (1) a module with 2 CardBus 
PC Card slots, (2) a high-speed Ethernet-based 
network connection module, and (3) a 1394 
FireWire high-speed serial connection module.  See 
“Upgrading DockMate V” on page 8 for details.

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Port

Connects to...

1

External floppy drive 
port

External floppy drive (if your computer has a 
removable/swappable floppy drive)

2

Parallel port

Parallel device (e.g., parallel printer)

3

Serial port

Serial device (e.g., serial mouse)

4

PS/2 mouse port

PS/2-compatible mouse or similar pointing 
device

5

PS/2 keyboard port

PS/2-compatible keyboard or keypad

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Item

Description

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