Emax

> Greetings all,
> I've owned an EMAX SE 1 (non HD) for a few years, just found this
> resource. Any LCD's available for this ? The back light is inop. I
> purchased a new one from Hantronix HDM16216H-2 and the back light
> works, but the read out doesn't, so I put the old one back in.

AFAIK, it's just a plain vanilla Hitachi-type LCD.  These have an HD44780
controller on them, and (usually) a 16-pin DIL connector for the host
interface.  They're pretty common, really.  More info here -
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ih/doc/lcd/
Looking around, it suggests that the LCD you have should be OK.  Check the
contrast - you may need to leave it unconnected and make up your own circuit
for that.  Also, make sure the connectors are all the right way round!

> busy and hate to bug him. He and his web site are tremendous! Might
> any one here in this group be kind enough to mail me an OS disk? I'd
> be glad to reimburse in some way, $'s, advice, EMAX 1 banks so I can
> see if the II rack is working or not. Thanks for listening, I'm sure
> I'll get some valuable info from a very knowledgable group of friendly
> folks! Mark
>

You can download EMX (Emax disk tool thingy) and the latest OS image from a
number of places on the 'net - I got mine from www.emulatorarchive.com in
their downloads section.  It's pretty easy to use.  You need a PC rather
than a Mac though. Mac GCR double density disks can't talk to the MFM DD
disks used in PC's and Emax's, so there's not any great chance of a Mac disk
utility any time soon.

HTH
  Gordon