Econet for an RML380Z?

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:05:46 +0000, Jules Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 14:13 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Turned this up on google :
> >
> >  MACE system
> >
> > REGARDING Mr Taurin's letter (Micromail, October 1983) concerning the
> > use of 380Z disc drives in a network of BBC Micros, MACE
> > (Microelectronics and Computers in Education) have a network which
> > will allow up to seven BBC Micros to use a 380Z as a file server and
> > as a printer.
> 
> Ta for finding that. I contacted someone else who has an MDFS Econet
> fileserver, and interestingly they have two releases of the
> documentation. The 1987 version is like mine, and mentions RML380Z
> machines with Econet. By the 1992 release, the relevant section has been
> rewritten and the references removed. (Of course by 1992 RML were
> presumably offering Nimbus machines and the 380Z/480Z line was dead)
> 
> I wonder if Econet for the 380Z was vapourware? I'm not sure when RML
> first released their CHAIN network (and thus the proprietary thin-wire
> network boards for the 380Z). Makes me wonder if there was a point in
> history when RML were considering using Econet - somewhere around 1987 -
> and instead built their own proprietary network...
> 
> Info that's lost in the mists of time I suppose! :-/
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Jules
> 
> 
I read that as a third party board which was available and worked
well. It came from here (I should of put that in the first post)

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/themicrouser/micromail/01-11.htm

Maybe you could speak to them and see if they remember, it was 10
years ago though.



Dan
Dan