Date   : Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:25:21 +0100
From   : me@... (me@...)
Subject: Retro Reunited: Econet Cabling, Demos, etc.

On 19 Aug 2009, at 12:15, Joel Rowbottom wrote:

> In the midst of all this address-allocation and table-worrying, has  
> anyone
> spared any thought for who's going to cable this up?

I will be staying at the Cedar Court from Friday afternoon to Sunday  
evening, so I'm available for the whole period. Although I don't have  
any Econet hardware to volunteer, beyond client machines, I can  
certainly be available to help set things up.

Unfortunately I don't have a working Econet at home, so I can't test  
my fileserver in advance (though I don't anticipate any problems) -  
but as it stands it will only be serving up 32-bit software anyway.  
(It's an Archimedes A3020 running awServer, unless someone wants to  
send me a copy of L4. :)

However it will have plenty of writable storage space so I'm quite  
happy for stuff to be copied onto it on Friday or Saturday morning, 8- 
bit or otherwise. (My Master has a GoMMC in it with pretty much every  
Beeb game ever on it, so I can certainly copy specific games somewhere  
else if required.)

I'll also be bringing a B+ with an MMBeeb interface with a billion  
games *and* a shiny menu system. This doesn't have Econet - and it  
will be far from the only MMC-enabled beeb on display, but it's  
available for use wherever you want. (I think at the moment Dave M  
said there wouldn't be space for it on Saturday, which is fine by me.)

-- 
David Glover
http://www.davidglover.org/