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An adapter containing a power supply to provide the required 12 volts was available from Apple to permit connection of standard AUI transceivers to an AAUI port. This facilitated direct connection to 10BASE-F ( fibre optic ) and 10BASE5 (ThickNet) Ethernet networks, for which AAUI transceivers were not available.
The Apple Communication Slot, or Comm Slot, [1] is an internal expansion data interface (slot) found in Apple Macintosh computers from the early to mid-1990s. [2] It was designed as an inexpensive way to add communication expansion cards like network adapters or modems to Macs and Power Macs. [3] The slot exists in two forms.
IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Apple in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily Sony and Panasonic.
A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, [3] network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface [4]) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network. [5] Early network interface controllers were commonly implemented on expansion cards that plugged into a computer bus.
A 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface, known as XAUI, was developed to extend the operational distance of XGMII and reduce the number of interface signals. A smaller variant called the Apple Attachment Unit Interface (AAUI) was introduced on Apple Macintosh computers in 1991, and was phased out by 1998. [9]
The Apple USB Modem supports V.92, Caller ID, wake-on-ring, telephone answering (V.253), and modem on hold.The modem is manufactured by Motorola.A device driver for the modem was introduced with Mac OS X version 10.4.3.
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Ethernet had become almost universal by 1990, and it was time to build Ethernet into Macs direct from the factory. However, the physical wiring used by these networks was not yet completely standardized. Apple solved this problem using a single port on the back of the computer into which the user could plug an adaptor for any given cabling system.