Acorn Econet Fileserver

Pete Turnbull wrote: Hmm, well apparently the way to get around not knowing the password is to set up a fileserver on another disk (which may be a floppy) using the setup floppy - that way you end up with a bootable fileserver where you know the password. Then just treat the existing hard disk as a secondary store and you can explore it quite happily. It wouldn't surprise me if it was you who told me this (or Ian W) over on the BBC list about 4 months ago :-) It didn't seem like the level-3 disks were out there on the 'net in any suitable form though. I'm not sure what the best way of getting them to me is. I suppose having them on 5.25" is easier than 3.5", although I do have one beeb somewhere with a 3.5" drive attached. Maybe a zip of the contents is the best plan, then I can drop them on the PC and use Xfer to get them across onto a beeb and onto whatever media makes most sense. (I've never tried xfer for individual files, only for complete disk images, but it should work) Hard to date it then. The only thing that springs to mind is that early Acorn clock boxes were in the same style of "bought from Maplin" cases :) (Actually, didn't the Econet software protocol change very early on... maybe such a unit - or at least the software - wouldn't even work on a typical 'modern' Econet even if anyone did have a copy) cheers Jules