Date   : Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:25:49 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Econet Socket Boxes

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Econet came out long before Econet socket boxes.  First there were
> T-pieces but before that you had a length of cable with a terminator
> at each end and you just cut a hole in the cable where you wanted
> a station and soldered a lead to it with a DIN socket at the other end.

I've got a whole bag of those T-pieces somewhere... I think they were used on 
a site to give more access points than the socket boxes could provide, though, 
rather than the sole means of linking everything together.

Somewhere I've got a clock box that is in a two-tone case - presumably from 
the days before Acorn were rich enough to use the stylish black boxes ;)

cheers

Jules