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Jammie, thanks for all your help over the years. While I don't contribute to this forum I do read it. And I always check the resources and if needed, the experts. I hope you will disregard any comments that aren't helpful to you! Sincerely, Wind (an Emax and Emax II USER from the first batch)



On Feb 6, 2014, at 5:20 AM, jammie <jammie.emma@...> wrote:

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> well thankyou but im sorry no more help from me
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> mods can we please have this person on moderation as he is being very abusive
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> i have helped this community for years but its people like you that make me want to leave so here i go
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> im of list
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> thanks ted for the recomendations over the years but
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> i cant just be insulted by this person because he does not agree with emu policies back in 1984 to 88
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> so please find your own solutions as i have been very helpfull to you on a load of ocasions
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> and what has the way i right have todo with anything
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> im a c++ programmer and writing this way is great for programming as you can see what you write clearly
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> so thanks for the insults and good bye emax forums who needs you as i dont
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: windrumscoggin@...
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [emax] Regarding Floppy Drives
> 
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> 
> Jammie
> Congratulations
> You're being an right wanker- ass.
> Refer to my post to geektech
> About  being a wanker as well.
> If you can't offer simple solutions
> (Since you're supposed to be the so
> Called ex-Ensoniq tech expert')
> Without insults then there is no point
> In asking.
> And I don't care what you do for a living
> I bust ass doing HVAC controls everyday
> But don't lay it on you like you're supposed
> To bow down and pay homage to me
> If you ask me an air conditioning
> Question now would I?
> How the hell old are you Jammie?
> 16?
> When people ask simple questions
> In a courteous manner it's incumbent
> Upon you as an adult to offer to help
> Without being condescending or childish
> I'm 6'3" and weigh 245 lbs
> I can guarantee you wouldn't speak to
> Me like this to my face but hiding behind
> Your 'Blog'  you have massive amounts of
> 'Internet courage' now don't you?
> With responses like this
> You've made this  forum moot and the questions
> Pointless-especially I'd you are going to be
> Childish and condescending and can't give a straight
> Answer without blowing smoke up everyone's ass.
> 
> Thefore, I will remove myself from the forum
> And stop asking the supposed 'experts'
> Because most (Save for Ted)
>  are too immature
> Or 'put off' to be bothered
> To give straight answers and would
> Rather spin yarns rather than give
> straight dope.
> Lastly Jammie, you live in the UK correct?
> There is absolutely no reason you should 
> Bastardized the Queens English as poorly as
> You do. I cannot understand half do what you write.
> Either take some grammar lessons
> Or check off the forum because your writing
> Skills are  damned near incomprehensible and being
> You're English, there is absolutely no excuse.
> 
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> 
> On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:38 PM, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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>> because its better to fit a nos slim floppy drive as its cheaper and there new and the convertor board
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>> you have been told by me and ted about finding drive that have jumpers for all the signals
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>> but you want us to tell you x and y and z
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>> and i said do your home work yourself as we arte not here to hold your hand and show you everything
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>> i get paid to do these things as does ted we give our free time and help as much as we can but im sorry my life does not evolve around you
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>> you have had loads of help from me having to go over and over the same stuff until you got it
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>> as i say read the list all the information is there as what you want to know was talked about 5-10 years ago before the slim floppy was found
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Windrumscoggin
>> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 6:54 AM
>> Subject: Re: [emax] Regarding Floppy Drives
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> If that be the case then why hasn't someone in our EMax group simply said
>> Hey peeps!
>> XY or Z drive works
>> Buy model number so and so
>> Set DS to whatever by doing ABC
>> And voila! There you are!
>> As you you said in your post "the "heavy lifting" has been done  already
>> Quite frankly this shouldn't have to be 
>> All 'smoke and mirrors' and really, most of us are musicians first and not all that technically qualified to dig as deep as we have had to go just to get units that are only 28 years old functioning as they should.
>> Case in point I have a 1962 Studebaker Lark automobile and I can find rotors, distributor parts, and brake shoes all day long still down at The auto parts store here where I live in California. Seriously, i am not pulling your leg. Aftermarket parts still available for a 51 year old car whose company went out of business in 1966!
>> Technology changes it's protocol in less than five years and the stuff ten years old is damned near obsolete or redundant to the point that you can't even find functioning parts for it anymore. Why technology chose to go this 5 year planned obsolescence thing is beyond me but it's 
>> Rather frustrating actually.
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>> 
>> Le sorcière des Oscillateurs mystère
>> 
>> On Feb 5, 2014, at 10:39 PM, <geektech207@...> wrote:
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>>> The floppy drives aren't as proprietary as you think.  Most of the views (problems) people have with these machines is that they're viewing them through the lens of modern day technology expectations.
>>> 
>>> Coming from 2014 PC land, yeah, they're proprietary.  Back then there was a standard set by Shugart which was the original floppy standard.  Over time the PC market bastardized this standard, and that's why you/we/me tend to view these old drives as proprietary and difficult to work with.  Not to say that Ensoniq and Emu drives didn't have some quirks, but they were usually just slight modifications of the Shugart standard.  This happens with Amiga / Atari drives as well.
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>>> So just because a modern PC drive has the same number of pins, a similar form factor, and looks like "well, that should work if I toss it in", doesn't make Emu drives all that non-standard.  They weren't that oddball back in the early '80s.
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>>> Technically, the biggest difference is that modern drives don't provide a RDY signal and are hard wired to be DS1 instead of DS0.  Depending on the brand (Ensoniq, Amiga, Emu) there are differences like BUSY being on pin 4, or Diskchange signals, etc.
>>> 
>>> If you're railing against the "replacement floppy drives are expensive" thing, then either you've got to go the slim floppy route Jammie, et al. talks about, the HxC route, or invest some time into understanding the differences between modern PC drives and the drive standards back in the vintage days and then find appropriate drives to mod yourself.  Or you can just bite the bullet and buy one from Route66 or whomever.
>>> 
>>> This stuff isn't insurmountable.  Other people have already done most of the hard lifting, you've just got to look into it a little.
>>> 
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