[Gllug] Acorn Archimedes questions

[Dave Lambley]

On 19/02/07, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:

> CJE micros - recommended and reliable?

Never heard a bad word about them, though never used them myself.
They advertised regularly in the Acorn magazine(s?).

> They seem to have some cheapish second hand Archimedes machines,
> although I'm sure I can get them cheaper on eBay.  The ones marked
> "NIC" presumably means they have a network interface of some sort.  Is
> this ethernet or something odd (eg. Econet!)?  Does it interoperate
> with TCP/IP networks (and other Linux machines, specifically)?
>
> http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/prices/categories/computers.shtml

You get a sensible (BSD derived) TCP/IP stack certainly.  RISC OS 4
comes with SMB and NFS clients, earlier versions may not have had them
bundled.  They also had a couple of their own dubious protocols that
ran over TCP/UDP, but you probably don't want to use them.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/othersrc/usr.sbin/aund/

NIC probably does mean Ethernet, though it could mean 10Base2.  There
is a small possibility that it could be Econet as they had a special
slot for the NICs.

> Can one plug VGA monitors into them?

Yes, though it may be fussy about KVM switches.

> A7000 or RiscPC?

Risc PC probably, much more upgradable.

> ArcElite or Zarch?

Zarch looked prettier, you'll need to buy something called StrongGuard
to play it on modern (post 1994) hardware.

http://www.armclub.org.uk/products/strongguard/

Cheers,
Dave
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