Mackie HDR EPROM wanted
Greg Cameron
disk recorder for sale? I'd like to get my hands one one. This is not
the BIOS upgrade for the motherboard I'm asking about but rather the
OS EPROM for the proprietary Mackie subsystem in the recorder.
Thanks,
Greg
Scott Dorsey
Did you try Mackie Parts?
--scott
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Mike Rivers
>> OS EPROM for the proprietary Mackie subsystem in the recorder.
> Did you try Mackie Parts?
What he wants is the "Brain board" EPROM, the one that makes it either
an MDR or
HDR. When Mackie Parts was still at Mackie, they would only sell you one
if you sent
them the old one. There were a few people selling what I'm quite sure
were bootleg
chips (copies from an HDR EPROM) as an "MDR-to-HDR Conversion Kit" but I
haven't
heard of one for sale for a while.
The back story is that the MDR, which came out later than the HDR, as a
hedge against
the Alesis HD24, sold for $2000 with three analog I/O cards. At the same
time, the HDR
was selling for $3,000 (or maybe it was $3500) with no I/O cards, making
the MDR at least
$2,000 cheaper than the HDR. The difference in parts was the EPROM and a
$15 video
card. Mackie didn't want people to buy the MDR and the EPROM and get an HDR
$2000 cheaper. And on the practical side, they didn't want people
disassembling the
MDR as far as it needed to be disassembled in order to swap out the chip
and make a
hole in the back panel to accommodate the graphics card.
So Greg C needs to go underground to get his part. There may still be
some out there.
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Greg Cameron
That's correct, the HDR brain board EPROM. I did check with Mackie
parts and they had none to sell at any price. At this point I don't
think they really care if you want to do the home brew upgrade, though
I'm sure they frown on copied chips. OTOH, there seems to be little
interest on their part going after anyone with the chip after speaking
to them.
Greg
Mike Rivers
> At this point I don't
> think they really care if you want to do the home brew upgrade, though
> I'm sure they frown on copied chips. OTOH, there seems to be little
> interest on their part going after anyone with the chip after speaking
> to them.
I don't know that they've ever really bothered to go after anyone. Their
best defense is, if the unit came in for repair with the wrong EPROM, would
be to say they can't service it because it's been modified. And, no, I'm
sure they don't care at this point if you modify your MDR since it's well
out of warranty.
I used to be pretty defensive about the intellectual property thing, but now
if I had an EPROM burner, I'd happily make chips for anyone who wanted
one. There's only a handful of us left anyway.
Scott Dorsey
>That's correct, the HDR brain board EPROM. I did check with Mackie
>parts and they had none to sell at any price. At this point I don't
>think they really care if you want to do the home brew upgrade, though
>I'm sure they frown on copied chips. OTOH, there seems to be little
>interest on their part going after anyone with the chip after speaking
>to them.
If you have an original, you can probably get it copied without too
much work. Try the folks at badflash.com. Eprom burners are not expensive
these days and a lot of shops have them.