Date   : Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:24:35 +0100
From   : "John Kenyon" <etljwk@...>
Subject: Re: PC/Econet

> 
> >It might be easier to graft on a master interface instead of fitting 
> >all the chips and components.
> That would be the approach I was thinking off. Take the master econet
> interface and simply graft it onto a PC comms interface. Would USB be at
> appropriate in solving polling times that the parallel interface may have
> problems with? You could even graft on a 6502 and use the 
> microcode from the
> ISA card :-)


Or even create an ISA card with a TUBE ULA on it, and connect the PC
to the TUBE interface. Then you could have the PC acting as a co-processor,
using standard MOS calls over. the TUBE interface to access any hardware
in/connected to the "host" Beeb.

/john