As a reference and an FYI, I found someone with an Emma board and with the information that LJ Electronics is still active but now called LJ Create:
http://www.anf.nildram.co.uk/beebcontro ... /emma.html
http://www.ljcreate.com/About/index.asp
http://www.ljcreate.com/products/factsheets/p5430.pdf
(It's possible they still have documentation for their earliest products)

I have an Emma 11 but it has no monitor chip in the socket
i have an eprom programmer and a blank 2716 but no code
to put on it
help much appreciated
roy

Hello cheekyfox John

Are these manuals scanned and available somewhere? Those will be really helpful.


Thanks
Marian

cheekyfox hasn't visited here since May 2016.

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Where these books eventually scanned ? I don't see any more updates on that regard ...


Thank you.

Thanks. I just saw the previous updates. Can't we find his email address ?

Cheekyfox will have already have got a notification from the forum when you woke up the thread.

See also this later thread - not that there's any definitive answer anywhere I can see:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3703

Funny! When I posted my message I was thinking the same thing.

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Thanks a lot for spotting the other thread. I could at least download emma2_manual.pdf from there.

Regarding the email. Well...if we know that his email address is not working anymore then we can drop the idea of waiting for any replays.

Greetings all,

I recently obtained an EMMA II board and, like other owners, am dying for documentation. The only potential leads I've located are :

1 - store.lathes.co.uk seems to be selling the Experiment Manual and the Technical Manual for 55 pounds each - pricey for sure.
2 - a lab manager at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, IL - Steve Muren - may be the one who used to host the copy of the User Manual that is floating around.

Someone here mentioned that they were working on a disassembly of the monitor ROM - that would be a great place to start. Also another poster began a schematic of the board, at least of the address decoding section - would be nice if that were available.

What I would love right now would be a way to serially connect to the board for uploads and downloads.

Film at eleven.

John - Colorado Springs, CO

Hello folks,

OK, I've located and obtained a scan of the EMMA II Technical Manual. I emailed the POC here to see if the document can be stored at 6502.org and am awaiting a reply. The document is 112 pages plus cover and contents and is large at 50MB. I am sure folks will be interested in this document, for sure.

Also, I have not located a detailed schematic for the board (the technical manual has sheets 1 and 3 of the schematic and a low resolution image of the address decoding circuit) so if anyone ever locates a complete set, I'd appreciate that if it were shared. Also, I have the addon/external Memory Expansion Module and would like technical data on it - it has room to add 6116 RAM chips and 2716 EPROMs, plus it has an on-board EPROM programmer with an EPROM that seems to be dedicated to programming EPROMS. I can get the program to start and it lets me enter a start and end address for data to be programmed into the EPROM but I can't seem to get it to do anything.

I also was able to dump the code from both EPROMS (SE 116/A, D8-DD, FE-FF on the EMMA II board and SE 118/A. 90-97 on the Mem Exp Module). I can provide binary or hex dumps from both EPROMS. Disassembling code from the Mem Exp Module EPROM will be a task, but should help in figuring out how to use the programmer.

John

Hi,

I'm a newbie here, found this site and topic whilst on a 6502 nostalgia trip. Used to use the Emma II between 1993-1995 when I was at college here in the UK. 22 years later, I still have the boards and a stack of manuals.

I have the schematics, extracted from the 118 page technical manual. Enjoy, http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/downloads/Emma_II_schematics.pdf (909KB)
I also have the technical manual, http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/downloads/Emma_II_Tech_manual.pdf (18 Mbyte)

I have not scanned these manuals but can do it if there is interest:

Emma II users manual
Microprocessor application system MA04/1 Experiment manual.
Microprocessor application system MA02/1 Experiment manual.
Microprocessor fault simulation and diagnosis expansion system MA08
These manuals for various plugin modules have code listings within;
A/D converter MS3
Relay module MS13
Strain gauge module MS13
Stepper motor MS4
Buffered loudspeaker MS6
I/O port monitor MS12

If the server bandwidth is not too nigh, I can host the manuals on my website, will monitor the traffic but I am happy to share them.
Finally some hardware pron

Fantastic! (And welcome)

I know Mike will be more than happy to put up this material, or a mirror if you put it up.

This machine was evidently fairly widely used in U.K. Education but has faded to invisibility.