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Date   : Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:09:16 +0000
From   : chris@... (Chris Johns)
Subject: Econet via Ethernet & PC

I would imagine a PIC could interface to the master type Econet and 
provide a USB interface, or even direct to Ethernet.

If a Pi could cope with the interrupt response needed (the ADLC has I 
think 2 bytes of buffering so you need to be quick, that said a Pi is 
what 1.3GHz thesedays and the BBC was 2Mhz) you could probably build one 
into a fileserver with an Econet 'HAT'

Cheers

Chirs

On 29/10/2020 08:48, Alan Williams wrote:
>
> It?s hard without an Econet interface for your PC* ?or an 
> ?Econet<->AUN bridge in dedicated hardware.
>
> A USB Econet interface would be an idea, some are rumoured.
>
> I have not tested this Arduino Filestore idea.? (I want to get my real 
> Filestores running again, & I think a PI might be a better platform 
> for this kind of thing)
>
> https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13940
>
> I believe you can run AUND on Linux to serve NetFS Archimedes clients 
> but that code doesn?t include support ?for 6502 clients since 
> connecting them isn?t practical.
>
> *Even if you have an Ecolink card its hard to find an ISA slot these 
> days and it never did run a fileserver on dos 3.21.
>
> Alan
>
> *From: *<bbc-micro-bounces+ajw=bigblue.net.au@...> on 
> behalf of <lug@...>
> *Date: *Thursday, 29 October 2020 at 7:27 pm
> *To: *'BBC Micro Mailing List' <bbc-micro@...>
> *Subject: *[BBC-Micro] Econet via Ethernet & PC
>
> Hi all
>
> There?s quite a bit of modern stuff around for the BBC (Datacentre, 
> SPI, RPi0 etc etc) but has anyone done anything clever with Econet??? 
> About 10 years ago, I put together a sort of Econet with a clock box, 
> a BBC Model B (with Econet), an A5000 (with Ethernet and Econet) and 
> lashed together a means by which I could create an image with ADFS 
> Explorer on the PC and use the A5000 as a sort of bridge to move the 
> stuff to the Model B.
>
> The trouble was, work though it did, it was a bit clunky (and didn?t 
> handle the execution address for each file brilliantly). Is there a 
> way, for example, of having a Beeb look to a PC for its Station 254??? 
> Presumably the PC would have to be running BeebEm or something similar.
>
> Cheers
>
> R
>
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