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Re: [emax] Greetings, new Emax 1 owner - questions...

2012-05-19 by Carl Lofgren

When I was investigating the HxC (which I think is clever but quite ugly) I found something called Flexidrive S4 - looks like a HxC but with a better build.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL4-f-4cE-U

/C




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> From: nuwavboy <nuwavboy@...>
>To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 7:59 AM
>Subject: [emax] Greetings, new Emax 1 owner - questions...
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>Hello  - I just picked up a rack Emax 1, non scsi for 50$ with manual. Looks super clean, but I don't have any disks to test it right now, but powers up etc...
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>1. the disk eject seems to not be working. I can put a disk in, but the disk doesn't "seat" itself properly, and then I have to pull it out manually.
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>2. It's a rev c board, which I assume is upgradeable to scsi...?
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>So, since I have little money invested in it so far, what would people recommend for options.
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>1. spend the money (about 135$) for an HxC
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>2. Scsi upgrade w/slim floppy and scsi card reader
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>3. replace the floppy with a working drive (models?)
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>I picked this up to play around with and compare to my EII. I'd like to keep it as inexpensive as possible, but am willing toput some work into it.
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>Thanks for any advice!
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>80sboy
>tom
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