🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:17:23 +0100, Glenn Richards, or someone
pretending to be Glenn Richards, wrote these words:

>> Obviously, I need an IDE card between the A3010 and the HDD. I
>> understand that I can get an IDE card which accepts a 2.5" HDD. Thats
>> the easy part. (BTW if anyone knows of anywhere I can get one for less
>> than UK�60 then please let me know).
>
>Don't know about less than 60ukp, but I can certainly recommend the Simtec
>IDE card. I don't hve one myself, but a friend who does says it's amazing. I
>think they make the mini-podule type for the A30x0 series.

The IDE card and HDD are now in, formatted and working :)
I wish I'd known about the mini-podule type before-hand; I'm not sure
anything else will fit in there now :(

>> So, [blah blah] what
>> do I need to get  a tcp/ip net connection?
>
>Acornet.
>
>Just download Acornet from a BBS, FTP site etc, dearchive it and run it. The
>only problem you might have is getting it from one machine to another, so if
>possible download it on the Acorn. Although I think it's also available as
>several HD floppy sized archives. Acorns will read DOS format disks no
>problem, so transferring these will be easy.

Getting it from a BBS is a "chicken and egg" situation: if I haven't
got any comms software, I can't download any comms software ;-)
I guess I'll have to d/l it in chunks to my PC.

[deletia]

>There is an alternative. You can buy an Ethernet card for the A3010, and
>network it to a UNIX box if you have one to hand. Then run a proxy server on
>the UNIX side, and set the browser etc up to proxy through the UNIX gateway.

Yep, I could've done that, but I think I've burnt my bridges with
respect to expansion <sigh>.
Are there any utilities for networking via the parallel port? That
might come in useful.

Cheers

Paul

"The geek shall inherit the earth." - Frank Zappa