Hi.

I am about to order the first small batch of 32 PCBs for the memory boards. So, I am throwing the order book open.

The price will be £100 plus shipping, which is £5 to the UK, £7 to europe, and £10 to everywhere else.

The boards will take about 1 month to arrive, and then a further two weeks to build. I will ship them immediately they are ready. Once the first batch is done, I will evaluate the situation and work out the batch size for the next lot.

I do NOT want to get stuck in the same trap as the tuners produced, sitting on several thousand pounds worth of unsellable stock. So, I will be taking firm orders, not requests for interest. I don't currently have time to fiddle with the website and will simply do this via email at first.

If you want one, email memory at pcats.co.uk with your name, address, email, and phone number. I will respond within a couple of days with a paypal request for the appropriate amount. Once it is paid you will be allocated a board or boards from the next available batch, along with an approximate shipping date.

As I said, the first batch will be 32. So, the first 32 orders will get those boards. The rest will have to wait until the next batch, the size of which will be determined by the number of orders.

Installation will have to be arranged by the purchaser. I will provide a manual in PDF form, the location of which will be announced when it is ready. The installation is fairly straightforward, but as has been mentioned before isn't something you want to learn soldering by doing If you are unsure whether you can do it, chances are good that you can't. Find someone who can. I have no doubt that there will be plenty of volunteers on the BBS.

Any questions?

pca

how much is 100(fancy "L" in us dollars)

You have mail.

Okay so 100"L" would be
187.132 USD
United States Dollars

Cool but what advantage do I get for my 200 bucks (including shipping)

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how much is 100(fancy "L" in us dollars)

It changes from time to time, but you can use a Currency Converter.

£ = United Kingdom Pounds = Fancy L

And more is better.

For me, I'll no longer get the VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player... through my serial port.

I give it another year or so before you and pgrzelak outgrow the 64MB expansion board

As it is, I am deliberately holding back from the first batch. I already have extra memory - I want to let others have a chance first before I get a few boards for "future use". But I will certainly be getting some down the road.

Thanks for the reminder! I almost forgot my daily check to see if the 120gb drives were out!

Another plus with more RAM is that one can play flac files and the hard drives might actually still manage to spin down.

Cheers

17 gone so far...

pca

I'm order #3..

So who has 1 and 2 ??

Order # 5, reporting in. Hey, if I'm going to be the empeg software librarian, I'll have to try out all those programs. The extra meg'age could only help, right?

Order #17 as of just a few hours ago!

Woot!

Are these boards usable with the rio central?

Got #14

25 gone now. Keep the orders coming!

pca

Yup, 3-boards. Orders #11 and 19.

I am going to wait until the second order for a board as my primary player has the "stacked ram" method AND I needed to get 2 100gb drives today as my primary player seems to need a new drive. Someday my backup player will get a RAM upgrade board though...

These boards are great for the mk2 units, as memory stacking only yields 16MB. I can now upgrade the memory on a couple of empegs in order to support larger drives/TOCs.

Okay. I have given everyone a fair chance. That would be four boards for me - <click>.

That was very cool of you to give everyone else a stab at it first. Maybe word hasn't gotten out yet, but it looks like this first batch isn't going very fast. I'd be more worried if I were in the second batch that enough orders may not be generated to make them.

Agreed. I am surprised these are not selling faster, but I would guess that many of the people that wanted extra memory already did the RAM stack hack. This seems to be a much more elegant solution, and I personally like having the option available in case the memory stacks on my players become unstable.

I think people may also be waiting until funding is available.

The good thing is that the small batches require less money up front, so hopefully this will be much easier to produce and distribute.

Now, about those 120GB hard drives...

AOL to Drakino's post.

-Zeke

Well, I'm definitely interested in the memory upgrade. Haven't ordered one yet though.

Upgrading the drives holds a bit higher priority for right now, but a new drive (80gb!) is on the way. I'm also still waiting on my tuner kit, actually. Once I get it I'll get in line. Just want to make sure that the international mail gremlins havent started to target my orders!

It seems like they are targeting me as well... Maybe someone in the post office needed our tuners more than us!

Well, I have now sold the first 32 boards. However, I have a couple of orders past that threshold. If I get a few more, it will probably be worth enlarging the batch size to perhaps 50 or 60, so keep them coming. Otherwise it'll have to wait until I get more orders in later.

pca

Whats the deadline? I might consider ordering. I ordered a radio from you and that turned out quite lovely , although now that I cant find the remote at the moment, I cant change the channel, but it was a great kit to build from scratch, so me and my solder gun say thank you. But money is sooo fleeting

would those extras still be at 110 GBP? ($206 american!)

I use my EMPEG everyday, I may just have some time finally not to be overseas or working on a film to try my hand at ODB-II integration (come on dude! Press a button and get your current RPM's or MPH? We have to do this!) This ram mod might come in handy if we get increase userspace with a modified install.