16 Jan
2004
16 Jan
'04
12:39 a.m.
On Jan 16, 10:00, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
Somewhere out there in the world there is also at least one econet
<-->
X.400 box, (coz I saw it on eBay) which was based on a
BBC B with
some
customer software/hardware - would be nice to get hold
of the
specs/software on that too - could eventually link my emulated BBCs
to the
Internet properly..
X.400 is a messaging (email etc) protocol; I think you've seen an Acorn
X.25 Gateway. They weren't one of Acorn's success stories :-) I
recall the Psychology Department at Edinburgh University had one, they
intended it to link their Econet lab to the ERCC network and thence to
JANET. It's a box with a BBC motherboard and some extra gubbins in it.
You'd be better to run something like !Gateway on an Archimedes or
RISC PC with an Econet and an Ethernet interface.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York