Can you get AAUI sockets anywhere?

[stepleton]

Let's say you have an AAUI accessory (e.g. a 10BASE-T transceiver/MAU) that you want to plug into a regular AUI port. Is it possible?

Wikipedia says yes. But last night I proved it to myself:

Still works with AAUI even while being hacked up this way. This specific adaptation is handy because Farallon EtherMac MAUs are easy to find at the moment while regular AUI<->10BT MAUs are (shockingly) rare and often at a price point that I don't like. But stripping a whole bunch of teeny tiny wires is a drag...

If there's a way to get some AAUI socket receptacles (like what you find on the back of a Mac) then it would be possible to make a much more elegant adapter and leave the EtherMac unmodified. Does anyone know if there's a way to get your hands on such things?

 

[ClassicHasClass]

I'm surprised to hear you had that much difficulty with getting AUI MAUs. They seemed to multiply like hamsters in my drawer at work. Admittedly that was back in the late 1990s but even now they pop up in weird places in my storage closet.

 

[stepleton]

I know, they used to be like tribbles almost. I think that old feeling of ubiquity is what's keeping me from gritting my teeth and paying the eBay price.