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<div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Thanks for the positive report Peter 😊<br>
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Need to sell 10 more sets and I've paid for the programmer. Then I can focus on making music rather than mucking about with the technology.<br>
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(though if you have older kit, there's always a maintenance overhead)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:peter@severity-one.com">Peter Korsten</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">‎10/‎02/‎2015 20:24</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">Music Bar</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">EX5 ROM upgrade</span><br>
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<div class="PlainText">Some of you may know that I own an EX5 ;-) and that I try to load it
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with all possible extras. So it's got four additional outputs, SCSI, 64 <br>
MB RAM, and 16 MB Flash memory. The one thing really missing was getting <br>
the latest OS.<br>
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You may remember Tim's (random variate) offer on this list to get you <br>
the latest OS. So I took him up on that, and for a very reasonable fee <br>
(basically cost price) he delivered the four chips. Replacing them is <br>
fairly easy, although I would recommend buying a chip puller. You could <br>
perhaps get away with using a small screwdriver, but there isn't really <br>
enough space if you only remove the large metal plate in the bottom. <br>
(The one you remove if you want to install SCSI or replace the battery.)<br>
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Even though I managed to bend two pins between chip and socket - Tim <br>
quickly helped identify this problem, which I managed to overlook when <br>
doing the visual check - the chips were inserted properly in the end.<br>
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Boot up, and everything worked! Large samples now load in a manner of <br>
seconds. ;-) OK, the latter is not true, and cannot be solved because of <br>
the design of the EX5, but at least this takes care of the bugs (and <br>
there have been quite a few) in the earlier versions of the EX5 OS.<br>
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Given the price of the upgrade, and given the value your EX5/EX5R/EX7 <br>
has for you, I think it's well worth it.<br>
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No, I'm not getting paid for this endorsement. :-)<br>
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Thanks again to Tim,<br>
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- Peter<br>
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