Date   : Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:17:24 +0200 (BST)
From   : Johan Heuseveldt <johan@...>
Subject: Re: Econet-Ethernet bridge

Hi,

On Thu 28 Jul, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:32 +0200, Johan Heuseveldt wrote:

[snip]

> > Ben Harris? Is that the person of the (Acorn) 6809 project?
> > (And then discontinued)
> 
> I only know of three 6809 projects:
> 
> 1) Acorn's own 6809 eurocard for System machines.
> 
> 2) Homebrew 6809 for the BBC B  using a Dragon 64 - August & September
> 1985 issues of "Electronics and Computing" magazine. (I need to find the
> second part amongst the millions of magazines at the museum, then I'll
> scan them; first part I have here at home)

Would be nice when to hear when complete.
I've bought a CoCo for that reason. So the above could be interesting!

> 3) Graham Toal's homebrew board for the BBC B - quick pic here as the
> original on his website's enormous (and no better resolution): 
>   http://www.patooie.com/temp/6809copro_gtoal.jpg

Just went there; looks nice.

> Do you mean that it was a Ben Harris who designed the Acorn eurocard
> board? Or what this a different 6809 project altogether?

Don't know either of that.

Somehow that name just triggered an association with 6809. Once I
downloaded a scanned schematic which should be anywhere on HD, and
for now my grey cells are connecting that to 'Harris', which could
be 'Ben Harris'.
Must do a /real/ proper search then.


greetings,
Johan

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  aka  waarland

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