Yes, it was made in Scotts Valley and a LOT of the people that used to work for EMU are now over at Univeral Audio, who are also now, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains where EMU used to be. All of it 10 minutes down the road from the major manufacturing sites that used to do the LSI chips and Hard Drives and PCB's for so much of the EMU stuff out there. Since California has gotten so earthy conscience in the last two decades most manufacturing (which used to be of great quality btw) has been moved over to China where they have no rules concerning just how much gross pollutants they can shove into their atmosphere in the manufacturing process (Ah, how noble of us here in to California to 'ship our problems' overseas to the lowest manufacturing bidder.
All that aside, the guys up on SandHill Road in Palo Alto throw millions on Startups like its a joke...I know, as my ex was an executive VP with Adobe and she would tell me stories about Wednesday eves being 'Startup shmooze night' on SandHill Road where companies seeking venture capital gave trips to Paris for the female execs on the Startup board and trips to Thailand for the guys...No Shit....and often times, the money for the companies were simply tax write offs for the investors..we are talking hundreds of millions for dumb assed government backed rip off corporations such as Solyndra, etc....\
don't get me started...a PCD 60/B remanufacture venture would be consided 'chump change' to these guys.... its all just a matter of knowing who to talk to
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Windrumscoggin <windrumscoggin@...> wrote:
I live in Silicon ValleyPeople throw away money on startupCompanies that go belly-up that makesA million dollars look like Monopoly moneyIt could be done if the demand for the product wereThere. I just don't the demand/ money is in it or elseIt yes, would have been done by now.
Sent from my iPhoneto make a scsi to cf device very cheap you would need to have a garanteed user base 1000000+ unit manufacture so parts cost could be cheap but we are talking in millions of cash even before selling 1 item in parts manufacture wages taxes transportpackaging user manualif it were that easy it would of been done and madeand as ted said a diy solution is going to cost a lot more in parts costs alone----- Original Message -----From: WindrumscogginSent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 4:34 AMSubject: Re: [emax] Uni-Flash USB alternative to the PCD 50/60B?I say we bribe or pay SCM company to remanufacture the PCD's en mass but this time around use earth friendly materials and write firmware that makes every one of the Lund slots SCSI slots instead & compatible with SCSI I II and III protocol.
Sounds easy as pie, right?
Ha ha!
I imagine if you could do something like this you could sell these things to every musician on the planet wishing to upgrade their old SCSI machine with flash card capability
Imagine the market!
Ted, wanna start a business?
How hard do you think it would be to create a 'universal' SCSI flash card reader writer compatible with all SCSI capable musical instruments?
You and Jammie seem to know more about the possibility of something like this being feasible so both your thoughts on this kind of thing even becoming a possibility?
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