I have purchased a Rabbit Semiconductor 4010 Development Kit, they were on offer at their European Store. Quite reasonable really, I rang the local supplier and they told me that is £17 below cost to them.

I also have the commercial serial adaptor on it's way, I figured my skills in this area are seriously minimal so I needed an easy solution to check everything is working before I start my own development. I did try to contact the guys linked right at the start of this thread, but no joy as yet, he was using a Rabbit board to good effect it seems.

The empeg controlling the slimserver would of course be the ultimate solution for me

Cheers

Cris.