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Emax II? RE: [emax] Re: Zip,zip,zip

2004-10-04 by Bob Conner

What about Emax II's?

Thanks!

Bob
--- Rob Keeble <rob@...> wrote:

> Hi,
> E-mu shipped a variety of motherboards in Emaxs,
> especially in the late
> 80's. They sometimes put complete Emax HD boards
> into base Emax cases
> because it was cheaper to produce them like that. So
> its always worth
> looking inside your Emax to see what you have.
> 
> All Emaxs can be upgraded to HD and SCSI, but only
> Emaxs with a later
> motherboard are in any way a practical proposition.
> Emax HD and Emax SE HD
> are the right candidates for the job, and I can help
> with the necessary SCSI
> connector and OS Plus and SE upgrades.
> 
> Non HD Emaxs are now very difficult to upgrade (and
> original Emaxs nearly
> impossible), as new PAL chips are proving hard to
> burn, although the EPROM
> and SCSI chip can be done, as can the necessary PCB
> cuts. All the
> documentation is on the web site for those
> interested. The ZIP100 is a very
> cool upgrade, and it will take 36 Banks, formats in
> 2 seconds, loads
> quickly. And I have the OMI sample banks from the
> Emax OMI CDROM's as
> ZIP100's....so you can access 700 sample banks for
> the Emax...
> 
> If anyone in the UK is after an Emax SE HD SCSI, I
> may be selling a rack or
> keyboard unit in a few months, complete with ZIP100
> drive and 30+ carts full
> of Pro samples. And Sound Designer Universal for
> sample editing and maybe a
> Mac too..  Just depends what kinda offer I get.
> 
> Regards
> Rob
> www.emulatorarchive.com
> 
> 
> 
>   The Emax that I got off eBay turned out to be an
> HD without the
>   sticker.
>   The seller never said anything about it having a
> internal drive,
>   they only stated that they didn't have any
> floppies with O.S.
>   It was a pleasant surprise as was the conditon of
> the unit.
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 



		
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