There's an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium III processor and a hard drive, and the game controllers connect to the unit via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology that's typical of most PCs.

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Traditionally, computers have a port to transfer video of their screen, and separate ports, such as USB (Universal Serial Bus), FireWire, and PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), among others that are less well known.

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