[sdiy] PPG sacrilege!

[Steve C.]

On May 11, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Paul Maddox wrote:

> hehehe, hear-say is a bad thing.
> The other thing was that the PPG was incredibly complicated, the  
> Prozboard which does all the oscillators, is a major league complex  
> state machine made from discrete logic (74Snn) and it scared the  
> living bejesus out of any tech who saw it.

I worked for the US distributor back in the day as a tech/salesguy...  
the Proz didn't scare me, it was *all* board-swap at that time. Palm  
was quite adamant about not allowing us to troubleshoot at board  
level. He wanted them all returned anyway.

And much as I loved the instrument (I had a 2, a 2.2, and finally a  
2.3), the firmware was always dodgy... especially the last revs when  
he added MIDI. Crash city for quite awhile.

*S*


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