> > * LittleBigLAN (never heard of or saw) > > * The $25 Network (never heard of or saw) > > Odd... They were sold in the UK as being American imports...
Dare I suggest that perhaps they flopped in the states so they tried to flog them to us :-) > I never saw CP/M networked in my life. I've never seen it in operation, but the Gemini Galaxy (somewhat based on the Nascom, with the same bus) had a network option. It was a little board that hung off the parallel connector on the CPU board. The one I have had had all the numbers scratched off the ICs, it took me about 2 minutes to realise that the main 40 pin IC was a dumb UART. The rest of the board was a bit of logic to interface it to the parallel port, a clock generator and RS485 buffers. Wasn't there some kind of network for the RML380Z and 480Z machines? Of course the common network in UK schools in the early 80s was Econet (Acorn's network for the BBC micro, Atom, etc). -tony
