brockrockman

Agreed -- the price contrast between the unit itself and the component replacements and upgrades is a turn-off, however going into a ~30 year vintage pro audio sampler thinking it will have a low cost of ownership or repair feels unfair.

Yes, the base unit themselves might be cheap. But once you're looking at enthusiast-produced LCD replacements or optionally-purchased-in-the-90s expansion cards, having sticker shock is expected.

LCD parts are cheap if you want to put the domain engineering work and solve engineering challenges yourself. They are expensive if you're one-stop buying a targeted kit and just trying to max out your upgrades.

An HN poster might be willing to put in significantly more time head-desking and soldering to save $200. A producer buying a vintage Akai is not necessarily looking for an EE project.

To that producer, the functionally upgraded unit is "worth" a lot more than $300 since they're selling the products of it.

They are cheap to find -- on Yahoo Auctions Japan I got an s3000xl for ~$80 since the 8-out works in the MPC2k/xl and go for as much as ~$400 alone.

But that doesn't mean anything about the cost to repair, upgrade, or in the case of LCD replacement, modernize. The memory, flash, effects, and expansion cards are highly sought after, and you're competing with bigger budget established producers.

^ This

As noted, the expensive MPC60/3k replacements are just generic T6963C / RA6963 displays with the circuit bypassed (since sampler has the LC7981) and the correct pitch ribbon cable soldered.

I did a backlight replacement on a S3000XL, a LCD replacement on S900, and found a cheap ($25?) LCD replacement for ASQ10 (same as MPC60/MPC3000).

Jazzcat + Ebay sell expensive replacements, but they are actually just cheap LCD displays with the driver circuit bypassed (since the MPC/sampler has a discreet IC) and an epoxy blob to prevent copycat work.

I need to dig up the wiring diagram, but the gist was from an EEVBlog forum post and only took an evening to reverse engineer.

Does githubnext.com read as a phishing-adjacent third party to anyone else?

Why not deploy as next.github.com subdomain?

I've always loved how simple adding to sqlite is in Tcl:

  db function regexp {regexp --}

/r/tcl has a similar problem -- rare topical posts and frequent TV support questions.

I feel like this hits Tcl's use case pretty well, too. Old but not forgotten.

so can XSS start/stop/install/uninstall toothless apps?

Emacs natives should know "C-x * *". Worth learning the bin/hex support with "d 2", "d 6".

2x HP LP2475w. They are 1920x1200 / 16:10 IPS panels with pivot/tilt/rotate stands and a bunch of inputs.. They're a bit old, but look great and can find them used for ~$150.