Emulator search - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Jan 2004

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.
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Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
                                                Network Manager
                                                University of York