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Re: [emlsynth] re: 4 new pdf files / serial # skipping

2002-09-03 by mm123 ah

Someone told me that he heard EML intentionally bumped up the serial numbers
to make it look to their competitors like they were selling more units than
they actually were. Pretty sneaky!


>From: "Mike B (digiboy)" <digiboy@...>
>Reply-To: emlsynth@yahoogroups.com
>To: emlsynth@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [emlsynth] re: 4 new pdf files / serial # skipping
>Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:13:43 -0400
>
> >Dear Mike,
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks for the uploads, I am sure the calibration procedure will be very
> >
> >helpful to many of us! FYI, I have seen several EML101s in my time but I
> >
> >dont recall any of them being below serial number 400.. Does anyone else
> >here have a unit below SN 300?
> >
>
>
>Well my 101 SN is over1000. I think they kicked the SN's around to
>indicate design differences so you can't really use them to determine how
>many were made. (Note that in the calibration set-up they mention a change
>to philips head panel screws after #900.) I have 2 EML 400 sequencers and
>both have SN's in the 400's. According to several sources they only made
>about 300 seqeuncers so obviously that SN isn't useful as an accurate
>count either.
>
>Mike Berman
>digiboy@...
>
>
>
>




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