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Post #10 by MacMan
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 5 Dec 2007 - 00:03
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/bbc-master.10885/
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I put up a page during this summer's Retrochallenge which has some old Mac software for transferring files to and from BBC Micros. (Link) The one you'll likely want is File>>Mac. Note that the BBC images have to be just that - BBC disk images for them to transfer over and run properly.

To communicate with the Mac you'll need to build a serial cable to link the BBC to the Mac's serial port - details are given here.

I'm currently working on writing up a detailed page on how to do this but it's probably not going to be online until I start my new web server. More on that will be posted later! ;)

BNC to RCA adaptors are fairly easy to come by - again eBay is your friend.

Good thing you have a floppy drive - tapes can be a real pain. I don't think there's any modern drives hacks available, however I have seen BBC Masters on eBay that have had IDE hard drives squeezed into them, containing huge catalogues of software.

As for networking, I think Econet was an Acorn specific system but I may be wrong. It worked on the "bus" network topology meaning that machines were effectively stringed together in a line, rather like LocalTalk connectors. I have no idea whether Econet can be bridged to modern systems or not.