From: Peter Forrest <Pforrest@...>
Subject: Re: [emulatorII-list] Re: Help for a newbie?
To: emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, October 17, 2011, 7:12 PM
I've had experience of sending a definitely fully
working EII , very well packed, by air and having it arrive not working, and not
fixable by the buyer's technician.
Not a nice experience, because it cost me two lots
of shipping and of course the selling price.
Not everyone is good at fixing these
instruments.
If the seller has a good reputation and seems
honest maybe he is honest, and it just needs someone good to diagnose the
fault.
Peter Forrest
----- Original Message -----
From:
Ed Baldi
To: emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 10:13
PM
Subject: Re: [emulatorII-list] Re: Help
for a newbie?
Great info thanks. I will give a closer look to the
IC's.
This EII does have the RS422 upgrade.
Question: do you
think it could be something as simple as all the disks in the library
were compromised in transport? There are over 500 floppies and a random
selection of about 200 of them yields the same
result.
e
--- On Mon, 10/17/11, esynthesist
<esynthesist@...> wrote:
From:
esynthesist <esynthesist@...>
Subject:
[emulatorII-list] Re: Help for a newbie?
To:
emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, October 17, 2011,
4:44 PM
Mmm... if both drives have the same problem, it means the problem
is not caused by the drives (this would have been the easier type of
problem :-)
Of course you can still try to re-connect the
ribbon cable gong from the drives to the main board at the main board
side, but since that side has a locked connector, there is only a
small chance that there's a bad connection. Which means the problem is
somewhere in the circuitry or is caused by a bad connection of an IC
with its socket. Note that most ICs are sitting in a socket and that
transportation can cause some of the ICs to come loose. You could have
a visual double-check and maybe even slightly push down most ICs to
make sure they are sitting fully in their socket (but be careful for
static electricity !)
An old serial number is not necessarily a
problem. But some of the old units are still lacking the RS422 port.
Most have been upgraded afterwards, so maybe yours is fine in that
area too (if so it means a small board is sitting on top of the
digital board in the upper left corner, at the
backside)
///E-Synthesist
--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com,
Ed Baldi <edbaldi@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for the
response.
> Yes, same thing when I insert in other
drive.
> Also if I power up with a disk inside the LED says that
it's booting the OS but nothing ever happens.
> ebay seller
insists all worked fine prior to shipping and has been very helpful in
trouble shooting but I think I am at an impasse.
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Other than being old, is the low serial # a really bad thing?
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> thx
> e
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esynthesist <esynthesist@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [emulatorII-list]
Re: Help for a newbie?
> To: emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
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Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 5:32 AM
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"edbaldi" <edbaldi@> wrote:
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you can provide. I have trolled the various EII resources before
posting but I am at a loss and looking for some guidance.
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was an ebay purchase and purportedly left the seller in full working
condition. Here is what happens when I start up:
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It powers up and says insert diskette as the red light on top drive
flashes
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close the latch (i have tried about 100 different disks from the
library that came with it)
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and the red lights flash, alternating between top and bottom
drive
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while the LED reads "insert diskette"
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