Emax

Wow that's great...too bad it's not working straight out of the cellar
:) anyway you seems to have the skills to take it back to life!
I had a tour on your page ... nice projects!
Ciao e buona fortuna



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "sergiolo72" <Sergio.Lo@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all...
> 
> I have a Emax 1000 on my lab workbench, I got it from a colleague that
> was trowing it into the trash. It's nearly new, just the usual dust
> that you can expect on a machine that's been in a cellar for at leas 5
> years.
> 
> He told me that the Emax was fully functional when he stopped using it.
> 
> Now, the Emax does power on (at least it seems...) but it doesn't even
> try to boot. It halts almost instantly with all front panel leds on,
> nothing on the display (but the display itself it's powered on and
> shows the usual "empty" LCD pixel grid, so I can assume it's working)
> and no access to floppy disk drive, or so it seems... I see no access
> light on the drive, with or without a disk. 
> 
> Any idea about that? I've asked for the service manual, but the Emax
> 1000 is a machine that I don't know at all, so maybe someone of you
> could have a hint about those symptoms... 
> 
> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> 
> CiaoCiaoSergio
> www.axe-man.org
>