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Is my emax dead finally?

2003-10-01 by gedankentief

Hello emax group!

I'm owning an old Emax I, which I got from a friend some years ago. 
Btw, he didn't know anything about this strange "keyboard", exactly 
like me. From time to time I tried get some sound out of it, but had 
not much success. I think it produced sound for about two times, but 
I really had not any idea how I achieved this, because just one of 
the disks was working sometimes. Most time the emax hanged-up(?).

About two months ago I wanted to chuck it out and tried it for the 
very last time and it was working. I found out how to use this emx 
programm and created some bank disks. But then finally it couldn't 
read the os-disk any more, the disk was damaged. I tried to create 
new os-disks, but the emax didn't read. I verified them with emx, 
everthing was fine. But the emax couldn't read it anymore.

I think the floppy drive is dead, because it is accessed three times 
and then it hangs-up or starts again (infinite loop).

Have u any ideas what I can do now? I live in Austria, I think 
ordering new parts will not be that easy, right?!

Bye Flo
(who is sorry about his Austrian English ;-)

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