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Re: [emax] New member/owner questions

2009-12-07 by tu@...

Is that the Emax II keyboard that was recently sold on Ebay by seller from Adelaide? If the case 
is from Aerolyte then I suspect this is my old Emax II from the early 90s :)

/Tristan

On Mon, Dec 7th, 2009 at 8:27 PM, mud_plugga <steve.limbrick@...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thought I'd post today now that I've just picked up my Emax II.  I
> found a 2212, which I thought was pretty good (at least it has 2Mb
> plus stereo).  Having just connected it up and run some diagnostics,
> it turns out that it has 4Mb!!  To say I'm happy about that is an
> understatement - I'd like an HD as well (but I can add that fairly
> easily) - as I obviously have the expansion board installed.  Looking
> to the future at some point, what exactly is required to load it up
> to the full 8Mb?  And how hard is it to do?
> 
> I also received a number of disks with the keyboard, but most fail to
> load - I notice they are 2HD IBM discs, could this be the problem? 
> If I copy them onto a PC then copy the files back onto a DS/DD disc
> would this solve the problem, or odesn't such a copy work?
> 
> The blue backlight also seems very faded, though I recall seing
> somewhere that this fix is not too difficult either?
> 
> Otherwise, it all seems to be in good working order.
> 
> Sorry if some of these 'newbie' questions have been answered
> before..
> 
> BTW, I'm located in Sydney Australia.
> 
> Steve
> 
>

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