No fair... I'm number 170 wwwaaaaaahhhhh... I wish I had purchased the original so much more now!

;)

drool drool...

Don't worry, your time will come soon, and your wallet will be lightened... =)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 on order. Mk1 Unit for sale S/N 00030, 4 gig blue, apply within)

how can you afford the empeg crew and production street and payment of the parts, developing the new facial and all that stuff?

They're probably financially healthy. Have a look at the empeg sites. It says they're a privately funded company, not interested in additional small investors . . .

Henno
ex 00120
ready to score one of the 40

Just a question, what if the back-orfice part fails and our (my) order goes nirvana ? Haven't received a confirmation yet (was invited). Everybody seems nervous now...Like on chris mess. Or before having sex the first time. J.

Don't worry, I wrote the backoffice system, it can't possibly fail! :-)

You haven't got a confirmation yet because I haven't had time to start juggling orders and working out how to allocate the limited stock that we have. I can guarantee that you'll have received an email by the time I go home tonight (but that could be rather late!).

Just incase you really don't have faith in my programming abilities, I'll mention that the orders are automatically backed up when we receive them, so there shouldn't be a problem.

Rob

oh boy, I wish you hadn't made that analogy.

But you're right, everybody does seem to be getting nervous.

And dude, 170? oh no, poor you, you'll get one of the first out of the big batch after they've gone through all this small testing process. I personally would rather be in your position than number 1. at least you're not 13 thousand 6 hundred something. Wait a minute, what do you mean 170? aren't they starting at 6500?

DiGNAN

@Rob: That's different. For some reason, I associated backoffice with MS. Do you run visuals on yours ?

@DiGNAN17: 170 ? No, actually I do own #53. The MK1 will be dumped into my girlfriends car. I figured this is the best way not to make 40% loss on a just one year old blue MK1.

What's actually the first consumers MK1 serial ? Haven't seen anybody here with a serial like #15 or 20.

Cheers, congrats for the first batch! J.

> For some reason, I associated backoffice with MS.

Ermm, well, actually I use Access rather a lot - but I still maintain it's one of the few decent pieces of software that MS wrote (or rather, took over).

> What's actually the first consumers MK1 serial ?

The demo player is 00005 and I believe we started shipping to clients right after that.

Rob

What's actually the first consumers MK1 serial ? Haven't seen anybody here with a serial like #15 or 20

..that's me (or rather Emma the empeg) you're talking about...

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

Serial numbers 1, 2 and 3 went to some very early testers last June/July, so they're the lowest ones. I can't remember where #4 went, actually...

Hugo

Woah, you're an original!

Sorry about that confusion guys. I forgot about deferals. It's just my sub-consciousness trying to get that empeg to me sooner...

DiGNAN

Yeah, what he said! :)
Number 6500 gets tended to after those who previously purchased, then those who previously deferred.

I am still hoping for an email anytime now... please oh please oh please.

How many prototype was there / are there before #1??

When booting my Empeg, it says hardware revision 4 or something.
Are there many different HW revisions out there??

TommyE

Thanks a lot for the info. Are you partying, now that the MK2 went ? J.

I can guarantee that you'll have received an email by the time I go home tonight (but that could be rather late!).

Rob, are you still at the office? Didn't get an email yet, and I'm getting nervous...

I did some math: from the originally 6500 registrants that you invited to buy a Mk I, around 350 bought, and from those around 160 expressed an interest in upgrading to the Mk II. The first mini-batch consists of 40 Mk II, so exactly a quarter of those who are willing to upgrade will get one from this batch. Assuming all 160 will have confirmed their order by midnight, and assuming these 160 clients' registration numbers were evenly distributed between 0 and 6500, further assuming that the original registration number determines the order in which Mk II's are assigned to customers, then everybody up to reg no 1625 will get one of those 40. So I should be on the safe side with my reg no 1044, right? But then again, you never know... do you plan to also send out an email to those who filled in the online order form, but were so unlucky to not get one of the 40 Mk II? Would probably save me from some nail-biting tonight!

Daniel

I am too fidgity to party right now... just checking my email every second I get!

Actually the Mark II will make the differenc to whether I go to a party or not. There is a big festival Around July 15th nearby and me and a bunch of my buddies are counting on the empeg to supply us with all the tunes for the campsite and to make quite the impression on the thousands of people that will be there. For information on that party check out my homepage at http://www.geocities.com/renejeddore and navigate to the pictures page and look for Red Cliff/Salmon Festival pictures. Lots of drunken party goers there who have cash and lots would love to see an empeg in action! (*ahem* hugo... altman...).

You can also find a link to my del Sol page there which shows a pic of my stereo install which I had previously mentioned in the Installation Forum, all it lacks is the second amp and an empeg!!!!

#170... previous deferrer in denial about not receiving one from the first mini-batch of Mark II's

Unfortunately I am still in the office, yes. I've finished processing all the orders now (a rather manual process this time, double checking everything is working properly) and you should have received either an order confirmation or a delay notification.

I think it's time to go home, considering I have to be back here in four hours!

Rob

I think the Mark 2 is actually revision 7, and there were several versions of revision 7! We keep thinking of new cool things to put on :-)

Rob

Seems my assumption that the 160 who are willing to upgrade are evenly distributed among the registration numbers from 0 to 6500 was incorrect - there must have been more than 40 Mk I owners with a registration number below 1044 ordering a Mk II ...
Well, so I'll have to wait a little longer .

Daniel

No, there must have been more than f(X) where X is the capacity unit you requested and f is the number of machines available for a given capacity.

e.g., if you ordered a 10gb unit, and there were eight 10GB units and you were the ninth most "Senior" person requesting one, you'd be SOL. That doesn't mean that, for a different capacity, someone in the mid 2,000's reg number couldn't get one.

D

A lot of very early clients have chosen to upgrade - several with numbers under 100. I think the lowest is number 3, followed by 21. It's very gratifying to get so much repeat custom!

Rob