Date   : Wed, 09 May 2001 23:09:33 +0100
From   : "Richard Gellman" <r.gellman@...>
Subject: Re: Ethernet interface and the BBC

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-bbc-micro@...
>[mailto:owner-bbc-micro@...]On Behalf Of Chris Thornley
>Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:23 PM
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>Subject: [BBC-Micro] Ethernet interface and the BBC
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>
>
>Hi,
>   I have just come across this article from May / June 2001 electronics
world
>magazine which might be off interest. the article fully quoted on the web
>site below. But basically there is a talk and project for linking
>peripherals to a old Ethernet controller card and plugging them into a PC
>and using an existing network to talk to them. What's included with he
>article is circuit diagram and a kit you can send for which will allow you
>to interface a RTL8019AS card to a peripheral device and this board
contains
>a serial port and 8bit ttl interface.
>
>http://www.eix.co.uk/Ethernet/
>
>
>   I thought this might be interesting to implement a cheap Ethernet
interface
>for the BBC. The PIC chip included generate rudimentary IP packets and UDP
>or TCP packets or even an invented protocol could be implemented to allow
>the BBC to be networked.

Or you could get an Econet/Ethernet bridge (if anyone stills makes them) and
network a BBC the old-fashioned way ;)