Dan writes:
> I have a MacSE (1mb ram, duel 800k FDD) with an ethernet card fitted.
> I knonw it is an ethernet card because it has a T-Base2 BNC connecter on it.
> But next to the BNC is a 9-Way D-type connector.
> I have two Ethernet tranceivers (AUI and AUII) and neither of them fit this
> plug.
> What is it?
Are you sure it's an Ethernet card..? The DB9 suggests to me that it's a
Token Ring network card instead. [BNC and RJ45 connectors were also used
(in addition to DB9) for Token Ring, which can make it all the easier to
confuse them with Ethernet cards.] I don't see a lot of token ring cards
in Macs, but they used to be very common in the IBM world.
In any case, if it is indeed a Token Ring network card, nope, you're not
going to be able to use it to directly connect to an Ethernet network.
[Sorry!]
I doubt it's a video card, because of the additional BNC connector.
But it's *possible*, I suppose.
Ken writes:
> It should be a "Wide" ethernet connector. One of the early "standards"
> for networking.
I'm not sure if this is what you're thinking of, but the old "Thicknet"
ethernet cables were DB15, and plugged directly into the AUI port without
a tranceiver. [A major pain compared with 10-BaseT and 10-Base2, though...]
--Marty
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