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New member/owner questions

2009-12-07 by mud_plugga

Hi,

Thought I'd post today now that I've just picked up my Emax II.  I found a 2212, which I thought was pretty good (at least it has 2Mb plus stereo).  Having just connected it up and run some diagnostics, it turns out that it has 4Mb!!  To say I'm happy about that is an understatement - I'd like an HD as well (but I can add that fairly easily) - as I obviously have the expansion board installed.  Looking to the future at some point, what exactly is required to load it up to the full 8Mb?  And how hard is it to do?

I also received a number of disks with the keyboard, but most fail to load - I notice they are 2HD IBM discs, could this be the problem?  If I copy them onto a PC then copy the files back onto a DS/DD disc would this solve the problem, or odesn't such a copy work?

The blue backlight also seems very faded, though I recall seing somewhere that this fix is not too difficult either?

Otherwise, it all seems to be in good working order.

Sorry if some of these 'newbie' questions have been answered before..

BTW, I'm located in Sydney Australia.

Steve

Re: [emax] New member/owner questions

2009-12-07 by tu@...

Is that the Emax II keyboard that was recently sold on Ebay by seller from Adelaide? If the case 
is from Aerolyte then I suspect this is my old Emax II from the early 90s :)

/Tristan

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On Mon, Dec 7th, 2009 at 8:27 PM, mud_plugga <steve.limbrick@...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thought I'd post today now that I've just picked up my Emax II.  I
> found a 2212, which I thought was pretty good (at least it has 2Mb
> plus stereo).  Having just connected it up and run some diagnostics,
> it turns out that it has 4Mb!!  To say I'm happy about that is an
> understatement - I'd like an HD as well (but I can add that fairly
> easily) - as I obviously have the expansion board installed.  Looking
> to the future at some point, what exactly is required to load it up
> to the full 8Mb?  And how hard is it to do?
> 
> I also received a number of disks with the keyboard, but most fail to
> load - I notice they are 2HD IBM discs, could this be the problem? 
> If I copy them onto a PC then copy the files back onto a DS/DD disc
> would this solve the problem, or odesn't such a copy work?
> 
> The blue backlight also seems very faded, though I recall seing
> somewhere that this fix is not too difficult either?
> 
> Otherwise, it all seems to be in good working order.
> 
> Sorry if some of these 'newbie' questions have been answered
> before..
> 
> BTW, I'm located in Sydney Australia.
> 
> Steve
> 
>

Re: New member/owner questions

2009-12-07 by Everett

Read up on the memory expansion here.  You will need a few things that are unavailable through conventional sources, but I think you can make it happen.  The EEPROM image for a 8MB Stereo rack is in the files section.

Happy researching!
Everett

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "mud_plugga" <steve.limbrick@...> wrote:

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>
> Hi,
> 
> Thought I'd post today now that I've just picked up my Emax II.  I found a 2212, which I thought was pretty good (at least it has 2Mb plus stereo).  Having just connected it up and run some diagnostics, it turns out that it has 4Mb!!  To say I'm happy about that is an understatement - I'd like an HD as well (but I can add that fairly easily) - as I obviously have the expansion board installed.  Looking to the future at some point, what exactly is required to load it up to the full 8Mb?  And how hard is it to do?
> 
> I also received a number of disks with the keyboard, but most fail to load - I notice they are 2HD IBM discs, could this be the problem?  If I copy them onto a PC then copy the files back onto a DS/DD disc would this solve the problem, or odesn't such a copy work?
> 
> The blue backlight also seems very faded, though I recall seing somewhere that this fix is not too difficult either?
> 
> Otherwise, it all seems to be in good working order.
> 
> Sorry if some of these 'newbie' questions have been answered before..
> 
> BTW, I'm located in Sydney Australia.
> 
> Steve
>

Re: New member/owner questions

2009-12-08 by mud_plugga

Hi Tristan,

That'd be the one!  It's one very heavy case!  Probably paid over the odds for it (though some people have told me the prices are going up a little lately), but as I'd been looking for a while without much being around there wasn't much choice.

Regards,
Steve

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>
> Is that the Emax II keyboard that was recently sold on Ebay by seller from Adelaide? If the case 
> is from Aerolyte then I suspect this is my old Emax II from the early 90s :)
> 
> /Tristan
>

Re: [emax] Re: New member/owner questions

2009-12-08 by tu@...

Nice to hear it found a good home :) Don't worry, I paid around 10 times that for it when I bought 
it new. The memory upgrades and hard disk were very expensive so I settled for 4MB and using 
floppies. But it has the memory expansion board and I see no reason you couldn't expand to 
8MB!

/Tristan

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On Tue, Dec 8th, 2009 at 11:49 AM, mud_plugga <steve.limbrick@...> wrote:

> Hi Tristan,
> 
> That'd be the one!  It's one very heavy case!  Probably paid over the
> odds for it (though some people have told me the prices are going up
> a little lately), but as I'd been looking for a while without much
> being around there wasn't much choice.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, tu@... wrote:
> >
> > Is that the Emax II keyboard that was recently sold on Ebay by
> seller from Adelaide? If the case 
> > is from Aerolyte then I suspect this is my old Emax II from the
> early 90s :)
> > 
> > /Tristan
> > 
> 
> 
>