Date : Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:09:37 +0100
From : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Emulating Econet hardware?
On 06/08/07, Chris Johns <chris@...> wrote:
> The Econlink ISA cards had their own processors to handle the econet side
> of things, but that makes your design a lot more complicated.
>
> If you have a spare beeb i guess you could connect it via the user port to
> the PC's parallel port to act as a big "econet card".
I think by this point, especially as you'll need to write custom
software for both ends of the connection, it's going to be easier to
nudge the econet-to-ethernet box developers - you should just then
need BeebEm running on a PC to act as fileserver ..