Apple Communication slot
The Apple Communication Slot is an internal expansion data interface (slot) found in Apple Macintosh computers from the early to mid-1990s. It is used to add communication expansion cards like network adapter or modem to Macs and Power Macs.
A major complaint about this design is that when a modem card is installed in the Communication Slot of a Power Macintosh G3, the modem serial port on the back of the computer is disabled.[1] 6200 series computers that came with this card installed had the modem port blanked out (though the connector was still present).[citation needed]
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Slots [edit]
Communication Slot [edit]
A Communication Slot (some documentation refers to this as a Communication Card I Slot) is found in some 68040 and PowerPC CPU Macs.
- Macintosh 575 family
- Macintosh 630 family
- Macintosh 5200 family
- Macintosh 5300 family
- Performa 6200CD series
- Performa 6300 series (except 6360)
Communication Slot II [edit]
The Communication Card II was used in the 6360 and later series of Power Macs and Performas.
- Power Macintosh/Performa 6360
- Power Macintosh/Performa 5400 series
- Power Macintosh/Performa 5500 series
- Power Macintosh/Performa 6400 series
- Umax C600 (Apus 3000 in Europe) Macintosh Clone
- Power Macintosh/Performa 6500 series
- Power Macintosh 4400 (aka Power Macintosh 7220)
- Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
Cards [edit]
Communication Slot cards [edit]
- 14.4 modem Macintosh Express Fax/Modem (Part M2480LL/A)
- 10Base-T Apple Ethernet CS Twisted Pair Card (Part M3065Z/A)
- 10Base-2 Apple Ethernet CS Thin Coax (coax cable) Card (Part M2708Z/A)
- AUI Apple Ethernet CS AAUI Card (Part M3066Z/A)
Communication Slot II [edit]
- 28.8 kbit/s Global Village or Apple GeoPort modem
- 10BASE-T Apple EtherNet CS II Twisted-Pair Card (Part M4772ZM/A; Order 661-1171)
- 10BASE-2 (thin coax) Ethernet Card (Part M4773ZM/A)
- AAUI (Apple standard) Ethernet Card (Part M4774ZM/A)
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