I have one too here and it is 2MB !
Normally, if the sampler says 4 megawords, it is 4 megawords/ 8MB,- 4 x 2MB cards.
In a S-1000,- 8 MB cards don\ufffdt work unless it\ufffds re-jumpered by soldering 2 bridges at the underside of the digital mainboard.
If done, for a mix of 2MB and 8MB cards,- each one, the 2 and 8 meg cards, must be inserted into the slots in a specific order, depending on how many 2 and how many 8 meg cards will be installed.
The S-1100 has dip switches on the upper side of the digital mainboard,- so no soldering job.
The S-1000 was never made for using the 8meg boards.
When it was released, the max of RAM was 4x 2MB cards.
Later, AKAI figured out how to install 8meg cards to the S-1000,- but it wasn\ufffdt originally designed for that.
The 1st principle website tells how it works ...
http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/smem/8Meg.html
hope it helps
:-)
Am 09.05.2012 00:35, schrieb retroillumination:
\ufffdHi folks,
I've just acquired an S1000 sampler from a studio and after checking it worked, the next thing to do was have a good look under the lid for a bit of gear pr0n.
What a great old machine. Solid as a rock. Os 4.40 installed. Just needs a new backlight :)
The SCSI board is a very long board with a laptop-drive-sized 80MB SCSI hard drive physically mounted to the board, I don't recall those SCSI boards being like that. Bonus, a noisy old bonus!
I wanted to ask you folks about the RAM. The S1000 reports 8MB (4 MWords) at boot up. There are 4 RAM boards - two of them are the 2MB Akai EXM-005 boards but I'm not sure about the other two. The other two don't have any writing that give an indication of the size, just the words 'PA - DECODER AKAI 03'.
For all I know, they could be 8MB boards and maybe the mod to allow the S1000 to recognise 8MB boards has not been performed. This would sort of tie in with a sticker that says '20' on the front panel ... maybe 20MB, 2x2MB and 2x8MB?
Does anybody know if there's a way to see if the mod has been performed without taking out the mainboard? The 4 pairs of solder 'pads' on the topside of the board - W13 to W16 - if anyone knows which of those should be connected together I could probe them with a multimeter perhaps?
Thanks in advance,
Matt