Date   : Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:09:24 +0100
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Emulating Econet hardware?

Phil Blundell wrote:
>>> 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.

Explains why the MDFS was Z80-based then, if that's where their original 
expertise lay...

> 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.

That'd be fantastic if you do. I've just left a message with the 380Z group to 
see if anyone there has one, but I suspect it's something of an 'unknown' card.