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Hi,
Thanks John for the info. Typical of E-mu to loose the legacy stuff...they
have no concept of history!!

The swap can be done. Find an 8MB Emax II with a working main board. Then
swap the main board and daughter board of memory into your original Emax II.
However an Emax II with working mainboard is likely to be repairable rather
than scrap. Although a broken case, keyboard or LCD would probably put an
Emax II out of action.

In reality the cheapest route to an 8MB Emax II is to buy a s/h one. Thats
what we ended up doing.

2MB upgardes can be bought from Sound Logic at
http://www.ramona.com/Soundlogic/SLorigcat.html. They have the upgrade
diskettes, but I don't think they have the daughter boards for mounting the
memory. Rats!!

Regards
Rob
  -----Original Message-----
  From: John Silveria [mailto:emaxjs@...]
  Sent: 26 June 2001 06:02
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [emax] Wanted - Emax II Memory expansion


  That magic number can only be generated on 1 computer at E-mu.
  >From how I understand what I was told it was hard written to an e-
  prom or something like that inside a really old computer and they
  never bothered/can't recompile it to run on a different system
  because the person who wrote it is no longer with them.

  Bear in mind I'm not that technically knowledgable so I don't
  understand fully what I was told, but that is it in a nutshell.

  I beleive I was also told that memory can't be simply pulled out of
  one unit and plugged into the other, you need the actual install disk
  as it reprograms some chips, the magic code only works after the
  disc has been ran and failed.

  Does that sound right?

  On 26 Jun 2001, at 0:34, Gordon Pearce wrote:

  > Does anyone have a dead Emax II that I could get the memory expansion
from?
  > I've got a 2M stereo one, I know there are different versions of the
  > expansion board.
  > Also, does anyone know how to calculate the "magic number" to get into
the
  > e2prom menu?
  >
  > Thanks
  >   Gordon
  >
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