Be sure to disconnect any external peripherals and the power adapter.
Thunderbolt (codenamed Light Peak) is a hardware interface that allows for the connection of external peripherals to a computer.
However, this limitation came from the specific adaptation of the IEEE-488 protocol and, in effect, applied only to external peripherals.
This article is about the various external peripherals of the Commodore 64 home computer.
Software still needs to manipulate the gate and must still deal with external peripherals (the chipset) for that.
Devices will also be able to communicate with external peripherals plugged in to the dock connecter via a standard protocol.
Ports for external peripherals.
Devices that exist outside the computer case are called external peripherals, or auxiliary components.
Examples: "Many of the external peripherals I own, such as my scanner and printer, connect to the peripheral ports on the back of my computer."
Some tests have found it to consume as little as 5 W, not counting monitor and other external peripherals.