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When Apple introduced built-in ethernet, the port Apple
standardized on wasn't the regular "wide-phone-jack" connector used
for 10Base-T ethernet on today's systems. Instead, it was a
proprietary new connector called AAUI, a combination port that
supported both 10Base-T and the then-popular 10Base-2 Ethernet
(a.k.a. Thin Net). The catch was that you needed to buy a small
adapter, called a transceiver, to use AAUI with either type of
network.
Have an older Mac with AAUI and want to put it on your network?
Or do you need a fast and easy way to transfer files from that
older Mac to your new computer? 10Base-T transceivers are still
easy to find for around $50, which is far less than a NuBus or PCI
Ethernet card. (They may be available for even less on eBay.)
The transceivers are true plug-and-play, too, since they just use
the ethernet drivers built into the Mac OS.
Not sure which kind of port your computer has? Look on the back.
Next to the ethernet symbol, which looks like this: <...> ,
you'll either see a port that looks like a wide phone jack
(10Base-T) or a small trapezoid-shaped connector with metal
brackets on both sides (AAUI). A few systems from the mid-90s, like
the Power Mac 8500, have both
AAUI and 10Base-T connectors.
One issue: AAUI ports are designed to work solely in conjunction
with transceivers, so there's no such thing as an "AAUI cable." If
you wanted to share files between two AAUI-equipped Macs, you'll
need two transceivers and an an ethernet crossover cable. In
that case, file sharing over LocalTalk makes a much cheaper - if
much slower - alternative.
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