Analogue-sequencer

Thanks for that - very helpful. Still consider my P3 to be an absolutely magnificent thing, a really impressive piece of design and real pleasure to own. Very much hope to get a Cirklon sometime as well. Thanks again.

> So really the question is this:- while having a memory board 
> fitted whilst running v.3 would mean that the extra memory 
> could not be utilised, could it also cause problems with 
> normal operation which would mean me being unable to upgrade 
> to v.4? Also, would the memory board work properly if I did 
> it that way round or does it HAVE to be done in the "correct" 
> order, i.e. upgrading to version 4 THEN , installing the memory board.

The memory upgrade will have no effect on the ability to update the machine.
When it boots up after you install the extra memory, if you initialise the
memory, it will most likely run normally too.
The only problem with the memx board in the older OS is that there is a
memory bank select register it knows nothing about, so the memory area the
OS sees will be some random part of the expanded memory.
It's not guaranteed to work properly, but it's not guaranteed to fail
either.
You should have no problem if you are just planning to update once the
display is working. The OS bootloader doesn't even look at the main memory.
 
> My final question is this:- is this still the best place to 
> get Sequentix advice? It seems a little slow, but the 
> facebook group doesn't seem all that busy either! Everyone 
> too busy makg music, probably!

Most of the activity now is Cirklon related, and moved over to the Sequentix
owner forum on our website.
This Yahoo group still has a good resource of P3-related information, so
it'll stay put until whenever Yahoo pull the plug on groups.

Cheers,
Colin

This will not help but I am a massive fan of the P3. It was the perfect
machine for me.
Since receiving the Cirklon I tried to persuade myself the P3 was still
better in some ways.
By for 3 or 4 months I only use the Cirklon. 
It is fundamentally superior. But yes the P3 was epic.
 
 


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From: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Cook
Sent: 12 July 2012 02:13
To: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [analogue-sequencer] Re: Installing memory board BEFORE version 4.
Big problem?


  

Thanks for that - very helpful. Still consider my P3 to be an absolutely
magnificent thing, a really impressive piece of design and real pleasure to
own. Very much hope to get a Cirklon sometime as well. Thanks again.







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