[sdiy] Those darned Casio chips!

[Rude 66]

The Kawai K5000
> is a perfect example.  It was very expensive to develop, took many years
of
> R&D effort, and it ultimately failed in the marketplace.  Nevertheless, we
were
> all very proud of the machine and what it did for the company's image.
Just
> ask any K5000 owner.


indeed. i still love mine. and i remember when i was a member of the k5000
mailing list, that even after it was produced, people from the list
contacted kawai over some issue with the machine (i don't remember what it
was anymore, may have been an OS bug or something similar) and kawai went
through quite some trouble to provide answers and solutions.

r./