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Subject: Re: Replacement board

From: "techbot23" <techbot23@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 2008-09-24

Hi Guys,

Is this the elusive CPU???

http://www.butoba.net/polysix/p6cpu.html


> You guys are missing the point.
> The intention of those newly manufactured boards was to be able to
> move parts from the defected board to the new ones, so you take the
> ROM from the bad board and place into the new board ;)

> --- In PolySix@yahoogroups.com, "Chromatest J. Pantsmaker"
> <chromatest@> wrote:

... the old crow designed his replacement board to use common parts
versus what is required if you were to do an exact refab of the
originals. If his board needs a special rom installed, he would have
those files as well.


Hi, I looked at the schematics for this board. Problem is that it
also contains a cpu with mask rom.This mask rom contains the
software it runs and this can not be copied.In short: these boards can
not be
made anymore (unless someone can getthe software from korg) kind
regards, Jeroen