MMmmmm... good point about the fire code thing. Will the hotel be as paranoid as an american one? Possible, I suppose. I wonder if we can arrange for an extension cord to the outside, and do a few mods during the afternoon outdoor session.

I think the mod will take closer to Hugo's estimate of 5-10 minutes (soldering) per unit, though.

Cheers

It already is dumped out to serial.

But to see it, requires a laptop or terminal to be attached.

Might be better to just dump it to the built-in display.

Cheers

HI PIM,

Count me in, please!

bye

I could bring an old serial terminal. Less likely to be stolen than a laptop ...

Pim

It's not too bad, and if one person does the straightening/re-bending of the pins whilst another does soldering, then it can be pipelined nicely.

The piggyback soldering takes only about 15 minutes, including checking.

The nasty bit is the connection of the RAS lines, which is fiddly and fraught (as people have found out!)

Hugo

If we need more upgrades to make it interesting for Hubert, i'd like to have my MK1 and MK2 done, too... buying the chips from Hugo...
And a place to sleep shouldn't be a problem. A few euros extra per upgrade will pay a room at the hotel...

And the idea of a damage-fund should be discussed again.

Maybe I coud have one done as well

J.

Fine precision soldering and amersfoort meet i don't think that is really a good combination but Rob S is a diva with a soldering iron when shall we say well lubircated

Hi all.

It has been a long time since I really checked this board on a regular schedule, but I kept an eye on the mail gateway posts, and finally Paul's bunch order an this thread triggered my interest again.

Well, if this memory upgrade will be possible at the Amerfoort meet, I would actually like to have it done on my two units: MkII and MkIIa.
If I understood everything correctly, [edit] Hugo will bring some chips for the non-a MkII while the set I ordered from Paul is for the MkIIa, right? I am willing to pay up to 60EUR (possibly even more) to have both my units done, plus hardware cost of course.

cu,
Sven

BTW of soldering: Is Rob S providing support again? My MkII needs a new rotary encoder as far as I can tell.

I'd be interested in a memory upgrade for a mk2 ...

Reading between the [censored] lines, I'm guessing this will be a go(?). Anyone care to confirm?

I'll have my empeg, laptop, serial cable, and a set of memory chips. Anything else that I need to bring?

It's not in the plans AFAIK. We need to keep the hotel very happy and I don't think a soldering station will be conducive to that.

Rob

Hi.

Any official news? I thought I read in another thread that the hotel thought the soldering station would be OK?

cu,
Sven

Why would anyone make the effort to attend the meet and spend all their time soldering memory upgrades?

I hear what you're saying here. Perhaps one possibility is that the solderer could take the mainboard away with them, fit the RAM and ship it back to save (one way) on postage costs?

I have not heard anything more from Pim, and he's not signed up for the meet. I know he had tickets for the NSJF. He may turn up for the meet on the day, but as to whether his friend is going to do the work or not - I don't know. The hotel's attitude is a bit negative (I am a bit disappointed with them, actually - new management) but at the moment there is no sign that upgrades will be happening at the event.

Sorry to be this late with this bad news. Rob S tried to get
last-minute permission, but the hotel will not let us solder there.

Hubert will do upgrades at his home in Delft, though. You might
drop by has place on your way back home. If you read this
while on the way, you might leave your empeg there and pick
it up on the way home.

Hubert's email address is just hubert. The domain name
is two I's (eye eye) under the netherlands top level domain.
Sorry to be so cryptic, this is to protect him from spam.

If you PM me BEFORE 15:00 CET, I will give you his mobile
phone number. Otherwise, I'll announce it on saturday.

Pim

I can give you his address right now:

Hubert Hoefsloot
Isaac da Costalaan 81
2624 XS DELFT

Attached you will find directions.
The starting point is exit "Delft Zuid"
from highway A13 (Den Haag - Rotterdam).

Please make an appointment first!

Pim