Hi
Laurent,
Looking back, it would've been 'easier' to buy from Horizontal. I
did get a very good price on my 6.03 machine and Peter supplied the
upgrade (on the same machine) for a discounted price, so it worked out
ok, probably about the same. Initially, I wasn't bothered about
an upgrade but as soon as I got my machine and played with it for a
while I saw its limitations, especially when it came to sound
storage.
I'm
not sure what is involved in the whole upgrade process, but I think there
is a waveform superviser board installed, there are new startup ROMS, 4 gig HD
replacing the old 120Meg HD, but I requested the 8" drive and Tape Streamer to
remain in use. There's a lot of soldering going on too, but not sure
exactly what. The machine also gets a full service. I'm sure Peter would give
you a full run down of what work is carried out.
I didn't kept the old HD but assume you could have them back if
requested. To me I didn't see any point.
Hope
this helps.
Kind
regards,
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent Lemaire [mailto:llemaire@sgi.com]
Sent: 28 October 2003 19:04
To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Series III Upgrade to rev 9.34
Hi Peter,
Can you tell us more about the upgrade process ? Have your machine be upgraded
or do you receive another one ? What hardware is changed ? Do you keep the old
parts ?
There's something I don'tunderstand... Why did you bought a rev6.03 to upgrade it ?
Was it not easier to directly buy a rev9.34 machine from Horizontal Production ?
Or is it cheaper to choose the upgrade path ?
Best regards.
Laurent.
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