[sdiy] Repairability of modern analog synths

[Miles Stevens]

@Pete Hartman <pete.hartman at gmail.com>

Very interesting! Any ideas on why that would be the case? (Pun absolutely
intended)



On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 15:51, Pete Hartman <pete.hartman at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:41 PM Michael E Caloroso <
> mec.forumreader at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That was a witch hunt, but it proved the old adage of
>> troubleshooting... never rule ANYTHING out.  Even MICROPROCESSORS.
>
>
> Hear hear.   When all the other possibilities have been eliminated, the
> unlikely but still unchanged thing is probably your culprit.
>
> My favorite story along these lines is not a synth story, so I'll be
> extremely brief:  I did field support for Sun Microsystems for several
> years, and a couple of my peers were called in to troubleshoot an old Sparc
> Center 1000 (which was like 5 - 8 years old at this point and nearly past
> its service life).  It would randomly crash.  They replaced EVERYTHING in
> the box, they reloaded the OS, it still crashed.  The only thing that
> hadn't been changed was the physical chassis, which had no reason
> whatsoever to cause the crashes.
>
> Guess what part they replaced to fix the problem?
>
> Pete
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