[XCSSA] looking for a Mac SE/30 ethernet card set

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> On Monday 12 October 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> [...]
>> Hi Mike:
>>
>> I have checked what I have and it is not a network card... I don't
>> think.  It has the correct bus, but it has only the db15 pin connector.
> 
> That sounds like an ethernet AUI connector:
> 	http://web.mit.edu/rescomp/www/auiconn.jpg
> 
> Very old school.. but period appropriate..

Yeah, we learned about those in my first Cisco class.  They connected a 
transceiver to the big thick coax using a vampire tap.  Grateful I never 
had to work with them.

> 
> 
>>   I know this was used in some network interface cards, but I think this
>> is more along the lines of a video card.  In fact, looking closer at it,
>> and taking off the extra pair of eyes, it says Macintosh Display Card on
>> it.
> 
> Ahh.. in that case.. not so much.. the old Mac display connector's were also 
> 15pin standard pitch DB connectors IIRC:
> 	http://www.mcpb.com/assets/gifs.color/videom/adp.vmac.g34.C.gif
> 	http://www.hardwarebook.info/Macintosh_Video_to_VGA

Yeah, I had an old Mac monitor in my hardware class lab for a while that 
had that connector.  Built a G-4 Sawtooth that used an AGP card and a 
DB-15 VGA output.  Doesn't seem to freak out my little PC addicts as bad 
as the old Mac video connector.

> 
> Tweeks

Dennis Myhand, Edna High School