My Maxdata Artist Harvard SL Pro laptop, dating from 1999, has this port on its back side. I have never seen this anywhere else, neither can I identify the little icon to its side. The size of the port is ca. 1×3 cm. What is it?
How would I go about identifying a port, card or connector on my system which I am unfamiliar with?  Where would I find information on what these parts are? What would be the steps I would take in identifying a unknown port or cable?   This question comes up frequently, and the suggested solutions are usually the same. This community wiki is an attempt to serve as the definitive, most comprehensive answer possible. Feel free to add your contributions via edits.
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However, when an abbreviation is used, should this be based on the expanded meaning, or on the letters of the abbreviation.  Specifically, one writes "a noun phrase". However, here on ell.se, the abbreviation "NP" for 'noun phrase" is commonly used. If this were pronounced by sounding out its letters, as "En-Pee" it would call for "an". If it were read as "noun phrase"  it would call for "a". Should one write "a NP" or "an NP" here on ELL?  I incline to "a NP" and i used that in  just a few minutes ago, but I am not at all sure. I’m able to copy-paste from any application to any application. I’m able to copy from a comment or from a question or from an answer. I’m able to paste to a question or answer. However, if I attempt to paste into a comment, nothing happens. I am able to subsequently paste into another application, confirming that the text is actually on the clipboard.   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Way back in undergrad when I asked my professor this he mentioned that "the folks in mechanical and aerospace engineering use it a lot" but for what? (Don't other domains use it too?). I'm well aware of its use in Fourier analysis but that's the farthest I got to a 'real world application'. I'm sure that's not it.  PS: I'm not looking for the ability to make one problem easier to solve, but a bigger picture where the result of the complex analysis is used for something meaningful in the real world. A naive analogy is deciding the height of tower based on trigonometry. That's going from paper to the real world. Similarly, what is it that is analyzed in the complex world and the result is used in the real world without imaginaries clouding the problem?  The question:  is nice but covers a more mathematical perspective on interim results that make solving a problem easier. It covers different ground IMHO.