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> In the 80s and 90s I've always been a big Depeche Mode fan. Saw them playing the Emulator and EMAX and dreamt about owning one of those myself. Unfortunately at that time they were far to expensive for a student at that time.
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> Last week though I found one on a dutch second hand website for only 100 euros :-) It's an EMAX II, with 2MB memory. Unfortunately only a floppy drive, no harddisk. So first thing I've done is order a bunch of DSDD floppies.
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> Then I found this usergroup and saw that there were other options. I'm going to find a SCSI to IDE adapter so I can use CF cards.
> If anyone has some good advise on this, please tell me (what to use, what to look out for, anything).
> I was wondering if it would be possible to use an internal card reader, fitted in such a way that you can easily swap CF cards (of course you would have to cut a little hole in the housing), has anyone done that yet?
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> From: patrick_thomas@... <p-thomas@mindspring.com>
> Subject: [emax] Re: Finally got one!
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 14:57
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>       If there isn't one already, I wonder if
> it's possible to do the yahoo equivalent of a sticky
> post somewhere to discuss the CF card thing, as I hear this
> get asked almost weekly, and there has been months (on and
> off) of good discussion about what to do or avoid... and
> I'm sure that information will change as various
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> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com,
> "Hans Matthijssen" <hans@...> wrote:
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> > In the 80s and 90s I've always been a big Depeche
> Mode fan. Saw them playing the Emulator and EMAX and dreamt
> about owning one of those myself. Unfortunately at that time
> they were far to expensive for a student at that time.
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> > Last week though I found one on a dutch second hand
> website for only 100 euros :-) It's an EMAX II, with 2MB
> memory. Unfortunately only a floppy drive, no harddisk. So
> first thing I've done is order a bunch of DSDD
> floppies.
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> > Then I found this usergroup and saw that there were
> other options. I'm going to find a SCSI to IDE adapter
> so I can use CF cards.
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> > If anyone has some good advise on this, please tell me
> (what to use, what to look out for, anything).
> 
> > I was wondering if it would be possible to use an
> internal card reader, fitted in such a way that you can
> easily swap CF cards (of course you would have to cut a
> little hole in the housing), has anyone done that yet?
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