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Re: [emax] Re: Finally got one!

2010-10-03 by PHILIP MUNRO

Patrick - you may be interested, I'm selling a zip drive and discs with lots of banks on ebay (I'm in the UK) - Item number: 120626491280, there's only a couple of hours to go though. 

Also selling one faulty and one good EMAXII - regards, Phil

--- On Sun, 3/10/10, patrick_thomas@... <p-thomas@...> wrote:

> From: patrick_thomas@... <p-thomas@mindspring.com>
> Subject: [emax] Re: Finally got one!
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 14:57
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> > In the 80s and 90s I've always been a big Depeche
> Mode fan. Saw them playing the Emulator and EMAX and dreamt
> about owning one of those myself. Unfortunately at that time
> they were far to expensive for a student at that time.
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> > Last week though I found one on a dutch second hand
> website for only 100 euros :-) It's an EMAX II, with 2MB
> memory. Unfortunately only a floppy drive, no harddisk. So
> first thing I've done is order a bunch of DSDD
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> > Then I found this usergroup and saw that there were
> other options. I'm going to find a SCSI to IDE adapter
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> > If anyone has some good advise on this, please tell me
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> internal card reader, fitted in such a way that you can
> easily swap CF cards (of course you would have to cut a
> little hole in the housing), has anyone done that yet?
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