Emax

That is encouraging news. My first attempt was not a success either. Neither was the second attempt.

On the first attempt I powered it on and there were about 10 little black squares in the readout.

On the second attempt, after re-soldering a few joints, I powered up again and that time I smelled a kind of burning odor. So I powered down


--- On Sat, 11/1/08, mr julian <jujulilianan@...> wrote:

> From: mr julian <jujulilianan@...>
> Subject: Re: [emax] emax version 2 board SCSI upgrade in action...
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 3:32 AM
> well, just a note to say I finished the mods, put it all
> back together 
> and seem to have an upgraded emax (seem to - cause I have
> no SCSI drives 
> I can use with it just yet....)
> 
> On first powering up the emax, I had a bit of a scare, in
> that the whole 
> thing came up "dead" - no response... but a bit
> of disconnecting and 
> reseating the connectors, and it came up with the screen
> displaying the 
> word "diagnostics" - kinda like the install
> manual said it world... but 
> no mention of e-mu systems.
> 
> it booted the supplied install disk, which seemed to run
> with no 
> problems, then gave me a booted emax with empty sample RAM.
> 
> One thing I notice is that now whenever I turn it on I get
> the 
> "diagnostics" message on the screen, before it
> boots - But it boots my 
> old disks fine still, and testing it with a pattern from
> SEQ-303, 
> everything on the old disk I'm using (spectrum synth
> emax SE) plays 
> fine... So I guess I'll see what happens when I get a
> SCSI device 
> attached in there. and boot from the install disk
> again..... that's on 
> my to do list now.
> 
> Anyway - cheers for the project, Ted!
> :-)
> 
> 
> julian