Emax

Go for compact flash and slim floppy.
well worth the investment IMO.
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On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:26 PM, John wrote:

Sorry Didn't mean to imply you wanted to outbid me. Paranoid about getting one back I suppose. I seem to covet them now that I don't have one and the Alan Wilder auction (big fan of his work) came up.
It's great to know it's possible to get a replacement board if I need one. 

There is a youtube video of an emax with an IOMEGA blue bezzelled (sp?) zip drive mounted to access from the back of the Emax keyboard and he still has the floppy installed. I wonder how he got both to work in the same machine.  I would think that would be a power supply challenge. It's way cool. I ultimately want an emax with an internal zip that I can do the rare gig with that has all my custom sound banks in it since I do LOTS of sound design work and sampling for my music. I also have a mac se30 and the connector cable so I would really love to get that working again. I never got it to work with an Emax II 2mb board I had a couple years ago got tired of it and sold.

Well wish me luck and thanks so much for all the information!

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Johnny Tomasello <johnny@...> wrote:
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> Sorry, I didn't ask for the link to try and out bid you, I have 2 Emax racks...
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> I just wanted to see if there was any info in the auction, as Ted said the serial #s won't tell you a lot.
> I don't know how rare the Rev A non-SCSI upgradeable Emax Is are. They might be very rare, Ted knows his stuff. Both of the Emax racks I bought, however, were Rev A boards. 
> I had to buy a separate board to upgrade.
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> On Sep 7, 2011, at 6:42 PM, John wrote:
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> > I requested the Board Rev number from the owner through ebay message. I don't know if he will open it or not to find out. I hope I didn't blow my chance of winning the bid by posting it here LOL!.
> > 
> > It looks nice and comes with a case. I wish I never sold my Emax SE HD keyboard back in 2001. The hard drive worked and it was AWESOME. So much easier to sample with than my ESI 32. Which, if I get this Emax and it works out I will be selling with the working SCSI drive (external) full of sounds after some creative re-sampling of course. 
> > 
> > Wish me luck!
> > 
> > Thank you for the assistance!
> > 
> > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@> wrote:
> > >
> > > My understanding is---
> > > No one can easily answer that.
> > > The serial numbers don't correspond to board rev #s.
> > > That a version 1 board which can't be upgraded to SCSI is a fairly rare...
> > > If the unit ever went into the factory or was serviced by an EMU authorized
> > > repair facility, there is also a good chance that the rev1 logic would have
> > > been swapped out with a later board rev.
> > > 
> > > You would have to ask the owner if it:
> > > 1) Has SCSI / HD.
> > > 2) if no SCSI, what is the board revision.
> > > Example board rev information is here:
> > > http://djtbs1.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/scsi-kit-images/
> > > 
> > > With that said- for Emax 1's there are spare boards available (Jammie in UK
> > > has some) that can be upgraded as well.
> > > 
> > > Let me know if you get it and find out you need a SCSI update chipset.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Ted
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:22 PM, John <jrb1864@> wrote:
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> > > > There is an emax on ebay with model #1000 on the back. Can this be
> > > > retrofitted to house an internal zip drive?
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> > > > Please help me out fellow emaxer's before I buy.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
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