Date   : Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:10:25 +0000
From   : samwise@... (samwise)
Subject: Beeb Networking - Was: No wonder CompSci graduates

Thanks everyone for their updates/thoughts on the beeb networking
scene.  I linked Winston, Spectranet author to the discussion on the
mailing list archive too.

Apologies for the late reply, real life appears to have gotten ahead
of me, lately.

> I think I still have a couple of spare boards and I can send you one if
> you want to have a play with it.
>
> p.

Thanks for the offer, Phil, but I am one of the heathens who doesn't
have enough room at home for original kit, unfortunately.  After my
original beeb died and I lacked the know-how to get it working again,
I ended up moving to an emulator environment.  Shocking admission, I
know.  Though the urge to buy a new setup has been rising steadily of
late ...

> All quite possible - and I really ought to try setting a trial system
> up again, when the order of Tuits(Round)  arrives ..

Cheers for the update, Rob, and please accept my humblest apologies
for adding in an extra C there, which wasn't warranted!

I think the networking projects are amongst the most interesting going
on in the beeb space, tho I've got my hands in so many other projects
atm, that I don't think there's much I can meaningfully contribute,
apart from showing enthusiasm.  :)

If it ever gets to the point where it's possible to setup a virtual
econet over the internet, with a mix of real beebs and emulators, I'd
be quite happy to help out and see if we could host some sort of
permanent fileserver online.  Perhaps so that any internet-connected
emulator or local econet could immediately access all the beeb
programs we have online.  That would be a bit of a first - rather than
getting ppl to download a load of disc images to play like all the
other emulator communities, we could get new users to just install an
emulator and have it automatically boot and display a menu system full
of all the hosted software available whenever their emulator/machine
is online.  Of course, as new things are added to the archive, they
would also become instantly available to users.

Worth a thought, anyway!

Peter.