Emax

I'm the sad owner of a dead Emax II.
Can I use an Emax rack floppy drive in an Emax II keyboard, or is the
only floppy drive that works the Teac FD235 a529?

Thank you,

Royce

In a message dated 7/18/2003 3:48:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, rrooyyccee@... writes:

> 
> 
> I'm the sad owner of a dead Emax II.
> Can I use an Emax rack floppy drive in an Emax II keyboard, or is the
> only floppy drive that works the Teac FD235 a529?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Royce
> 
> 
 Royce
        Yes you can use the floppy drive in booth machines but the Teac is no longer available it was discontinued. 

Many sites still state the 235A529 is a great replacement but they have been unavailable for about a year now.
 Richard at Route 66

ya know i hate to keep bird dogging for this group
but on ebay right now
there is an emax disc drive

for $30

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2545591260&category=29552

cut and paste that jobber if ya want to see it

----- Original Message -----
From: <mishon66@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [emax] Floppy drive for Emax and Emax II the same?


> In a message dated 7/18/2003 3:48:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rrooyyccee@... writes:
>
> >
> >
> > I'm the sad owner of a dead Emax II.
> > Can I use an Emax rack floppy drive in an Emax II keyboard, or is the
> > only floppy drive that works the Teac FD235 a529?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Royce
> >
> >
>  Royce
>         Yes you can use the floppy drive in booth machines but the Teac is
no longer available it was discontinued.
>
> Many sites still state the 235A529 is a great replacement but they have
been unavailable for about a year now.

>  Richard at Route 66
>
>
> Emax and Emax II User's Group Website
>
> http://www.silveriafamily.com
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Ferrari" <ferrari5@a...> wrote:
> ya know i hate to keep bird dogging for this group
> but on ebay right now
> there is an emax disc drive
> 
> for $30

I bought it. . . I'll let the group know if it works out.  As it 
turns out, my floppy magically began working again after I opened 
the emax II, and shook some dust out of the floppy.  I doubt this 
will lasts long, though.


Thanks all,
Royce

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 14:13, rrooyyccee wrote:
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Ferrari" <ferrari5@a...> wrote:
> > ya know i hate to keep bird dogging for this group
> > but on ebay right now
> > there is an emax disc drive
> > 
> > for $30
> 
> I bought it. . . I'll let the group know if it works out.  As it 
> turns out, my floppy magically began working again after I opened 
> the emax II, and shook some dust out of the floppy.  I doubt this 
> will lasts long, though.

You'd be surprised.  Giving the head a good clean is always helpful. 
Since floppy drives are now utterly obsolete in the computing world, you
hardly see cleaning disks any more.  But for those of us who remember
that far back, you had to clean the heads fairly regularly.

As the disks (and drives) get older, they will start to shed more and
more oxide.  Thus, the heads will get mankier and mankier, until the
disks won't read any more (and indeed will be damaged by sticking to the
dirty head).

Cheers,
  Gordon.