Date   : Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:14:11 +0100
From   : "Charles Blackburn" <charlesb@...>
Subject: Re: PC/Econet

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk@...>
To: "Charles Blackburn" <charlesb@...>
Cc: "BBC List" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] PC/Econet


> On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 20:43, Charles Blackburn wrote:
> > Hi...
> > 
> > This has probably been asked before, but has anyone ever 
> > thought of/succeeded in creating an PC econet interface? 
> 
> That already exists - I've got an Econet ISA card for a PC. I read
> somewhere (possibly on this list!) that it has it's own 6502 CPU on
> board and then a buffer between the CPU and the ISA bus because the
PCs
> of the day couldn't cope with the speed.

hmm interesting....the other thing I was thinking of was a pic ethernet
<-> econet i/f. eg the pic would hold the tcpip stack and translate
between ip and eco packets. would that work ?

<CUT> 
> I've got one school who says they have some Econet hardware for me
which
> I'll probably pick up at the end of this week. I imagine it's a clock
> box, terminators, cabling etc. but there might be a pile of 68B54's I
> suppose.
> 
> Seperately I should be able to do a clearance from another school soon
-
> I get the impression there's piles of BBCs there, no doubt with Econet
> bits fitted. So chances are reasonable I should have the chips soon if
> you can't find them anywhere else...

interesting, well if you do, i'd gladly talk to you off list the bank
manager may let me play with a couple of quid to get some equipment :D



Charles 'Thunder' Blackburn
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