<strong>1. 8 years ago there wasn't exactly a standard ethernet.
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Precisely! Apple designed the AAUI interface so you could buy a "standard" adapter to convert to all of the separate ethernet standards at the time. You'll notice that a search on eBay provides more than one type of this AAUI transceiver (to connections such as coax, etc)
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<strong>1. 8 years ago there wasn't exactly a standard ethernet.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Precisely! Apple designed the AAUI interface so you could buy a "standard" adapter to convert to all of the separate ethernet standards at the time. You'll notice that a search on eBay provides more than one type of this AAUI transceiver (to connections such as coax, etc)