Date   : Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:59:06 -0600
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: [OT] No wonder CompSci graduates are unemployed

J.G.Harston wrote:
> When working at AFE in Hong Kong I had machines talking
> to each other with IP over Econet

Was that an Acorn solution, or something else? ISTR seeing docs where Acorn 
were having all manner of problems trying to make it work, but I've no idea if 
it ever saw the light of day (this would have been in the Archimedes days, and 
my knowledge of the ARM-driven era is rather minimal)

> I've got 4 A4000s with both Econet and Ethernet. I've still
> got them in storage from moving house, though.

I've got an Ecolink board somewhere, but it's a bit on the useless side - I 
think the only released drivers were for DOS (and for a reasonably early 
version, too; I think there was something that prevented them from running on 
later releases).

I really wish I'd kept a couple of ARM-era machines now (I do have an A500 
waiting for me in the UK, but some kind of bog-standard Archimedes perhaps 
would have been nice)

cheers

Jules