Date   : Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:10:24 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Emulating Econet hardware?

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 23:38 +0100, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> >>>         &FFFD   Research Machines 480Z
> >> You know, I've never heard of an Econet interface for the 480Z - does anyone
> >> have any more details, or know if it actually happened? I think the 480Z's
> >  
> > I seem to remember that SJ's first servers ran on RM480Zs.
> 
> Possibly unrelated, but I did see mention in some docs earlier about a company 
>    in the early Econet days called "PSJ of Cambridge" offering a fileserver 
> based around the 380Z with their own Econet board fitted. It's not impossible 
> to believe that "PSJ" dropped the P bit and became SJ Research...

Yeah, that's right.  From what I remember PSJ was originally "Phillip
Spence-Jones", then at some point Mr. Phillip left the company and his
initial was removed from its name.

I think I might have a (somewhat depopulated) example of the 380Z
interface board lying around in a box somewhere.  I'll have a look and
see if I can track it down.

p.