A pic or two...

Well, I had the pleasure of meeting Hugo (altman himself) and Tony Fabris today. Hugo is in town (San Jose) showing the MK2 to the FCC aparently. He was nice enough to give Tony and myself a demo.

The unit that he had still has the MK1 face so nothing new there (although I was excited because this was the first time I had seen either unit in person). Hugo took the unit apart and let us look at the guts. We spent nearly two hours talking about the Mark2 and Empeg in general.

With Hugo's permission I grabbed a pic of the back of the unit for those of you trying to determine how best to mount it. You can find it here...

http://macgeek.dyndns.org/empeg/empeg_back.jpg

This shows (from upper left to lower right) connector for laptop style lock, new docking connector, power connector, USB, Ethernet, serial, and RCA jacks.

There is also a pic of (from left to right) Tony, myself, and Hugo at...

http://macgeek.dyndns.org/empeg/geeks.jpg

if anyone is interested.

The inside of the Mark2 (sorry I didn't get a pick) is very impressive. Very clean and less cluttered than I would have expected.

I am sure tfabris will have some more commentary on the meeting when he gets back to a computer. I just wanted to post that pick of the back of the Empeg and say thanks to Hugo for taking the time to show off. I am going to get back to enjoying the beautiful weather now.

-Mike

> There is also a pic of (from left to right) Tony, myself, and Hugo

Aww, you could at least have let Hugo stand on a box! ;-)

Rob

Thanks Mike for the quick post.

Question: this connector for laptop style lock, will that allow fix the unit securely in the car?

Henno
ex 00120

Rob wrote:
Aww, you could at least have let Hugo stand on a box! ;-)

...or two...

...or more...

Well, I get "connection refused" so I can't see it :-(

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)

The laptop lock socket is intended for securing the unit out of the car - mainly for companies demonstrating the player at shows, or for those that take their player into work.

Rob

In reply to:

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Well, I get "connection refused" so I can't see it :-(

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And I get Cannot find server or DNS Error

*sigh* I was so wanting to see the troops

Cheers
Jon

Sorry about that guys. I am still working out the details of keeping apache happy when my IP changes (stupid dynamic IP). Anyway, it should be working again. If I have more problems I will through the pics up at some picture album posting site so that I am sure everyone can get to them.

-mike

Thanks Mike. Pictures now received.

I must say I was dissapointed to see the petty and irresponsible heightist comments made by supposedly intelligent and respected people in this thread.

I actually would have expected Tony and Mike to have done the honorable thing and been prostrated before Hugo in the photo. Or at least they could have been kneeling?

Cheers
Jon

I actually would have expected Tony and Mike to have done the honorable thing and been prostrated before Hugo in the photo.

(Bowing and kneeling) "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

All kidding aside, Hugo was a nice guy, very down-to-earth about everything. Just another Linux geek showing off his toys.



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Tony Fabris