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Transcription: Expansion slots allow you to expand the capabilities of your PC. You simply plug an expansion card into one of the empty expansion slots on the motherboard. Expansion slots and cards come in 8, 16, and 32 bit widths as well as PCMCIA. The bit width of the slot or card determines how much data they can communicate to the CPU at a time. The 8-bit expansion card and slot talks to the CPU 8-bit or one character at a time. Also known as the ISA or Industry Standard Architecture, IBM developed this for its original IBM PC. It is generally used in older PCs, the 8088 through the 386s. The ISA expansi ...