Date   : Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:58:25 +0000
From   : Phil Blundell <philb@...>
Subject: Re: Warning: Sad case on list!

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:40 +0000, Fragula wrote:
> Sounds likely, though "a pile" might be stretching it.

Hi M.,

Heh.  Well, yeah, "small pile".  I think you normally got about 16k or
so, though (iirc) those monstrous 3c505 cards had much more than that.

>  > I used the CS8900 on the econet/ethernet bridge board,
> On the what???

Here's a picture:

http://handhelds.org/~pb/bridge/bridge_with_econet.jpg

> Possibilities - hang a beeb off the Linux server (which of course would
> need to be an econet server using econet over ethernet, or econet over
> IP, as far as the bridge, which would convert to standard econet, or IP
> over econet as applicable (doesn't that make it sound easy?)

Right, yeah, that was pretty much what I was planning too. 

I still haven't quite finished the firmware, but I keep thinking I
should get around to it "any day now".  I did spend a few hours a couple
of weekends ago assembling four more sets of hardware, with the
intention of sending one to Mark Usher (though I haven't yet actually
done that).  If you'd like one too then I'm sure that could be arranged.

p.