Re: [PLUG] PLUG Wireless/ Co-op?

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

I am in the same situation.  A while back I wanted one for one of my
Macs, and the u.penn bookstore wanted $80.00 for one.  This other place,
"Chips and cables" wanted even more.  After my laughter subsided, I
found a lot of like 10 new Asante "Friendlynet" AAUI adaptors, and won
the lot for like $25.00.  (Why is the computer situation in philly so
pathetic, btw?).  I sold my Centris though, and my PB550 stopped working
(which really sucks, considering I went through a lot of effort to find
a bigger 2.5" SCSI HDD, they aren't easy to come by, nor cheap).  My AUI
adaptors are likewise attached to sparcs.  I am pretty sure AAUI and AUI
are the same except for the connector, but I havn't tried to force an
AAUI onto an AUI machine.

I have a powermac of some sort or another that also uses AAUI, but it is
in doorstop mode atm.  If anyone wants an AAUI adaptor, let me know ;)

btw - which model sparcs do you have?

 -- noah silva 

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 02:09, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:09:41PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> > You could always get an AUI-to-10BaseT transceiver; they shouldn't be
> > all that much on eBay.  Be sure that you get the kind that have the
> > RJ-45 jack and AUI port on opposite ends or that the one you get comes
> > with an AUI cable.
> 
> I've got a buttload of AAUI<->10BaseT adapters. The extra A is for
> Apple. I haven't tried to use them with sparcs, but it's worth a
> shot, since the stuff Apple added may well just be cleanly ignored
> by something else (perhaps with moderate cable mangling), provided
> the pin-outs are remotely similar. (I also have a few AUI adapters,
> but they're kind of attached to sparcs right now. ;^>)
> 
> In any case, NetBSD/mac68k has already been given first dibs, and
> I'm not sure how many I'll have left after I mail those out. (All
> the Centris and Quadra series macs need them; lots of people would
> like to have a useful e'net port on those and don't.)
> 
> Same deal as Bill: if you want one for a mac or to play with a
> sparc, drop me a line privately.
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net



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