Hello. I've got a bone to pick with Kurz.. Why is it that K2000 owners cannot obtain free OS updates when they are currently available an no charge for K2500 and K26xx owners? Why is it that the K2000 owner is still footing the bill for R & D that has long since been paid for, AND paying for new research on the products that have free updates!? COME ON! K2000 owners pay for the work on upgrades owners of more recent products can get for FREE!! Anyways, that's my bone.
As far as I know, the upgrade is free, but the EEPROM chips they come on are not. Since this is a hardware upgrade, there is a manufacturing cost involved...thats all I can think it would be. (K2500 & K2600) can upgrade via MIDI. Tempus Thales <> wrote in message news:<>... > Hello. I've got a bone to pick with Kurz.. > > Why is it that K2000 owners cannot obtain free OS updates when they > are currently available an no charge for K2500 and K26xx owners? Why > is it that the K2000 owner is still footing the bill for R & D that > has long since been paid for, AND paying for new research on the > products that have free updates!? COME ON! K2000 owners pay for the > work on upgrades owners of more recent products can get for FREE!! > > Anyways, that's my bone.
Hey Craig, nice to meet you! >As far as I know, the upgrade is free, but the EEPROM chips they come >on are not. Since this is a hardware upgrade, there is a manufacturing >cost involved...thats all I can think it would be. (K2500 & K2600) can >upgrade via MIDI. > > I don't think so, otherwise they would be available for download just as the k2500 and k2600 operating systems. I do have access to an EPROM burner and know what is involved in burning software onto chips. I don't think Kurzweil or Sweetwater or Sound Logic would be interested in sending me those files when they can have me pay $200 for and update to 3.87. 27C4001 are 5$ a pop (that's for the ROM blocks) and the 27C512 can be pulled from old 8086s!! Now that's a markup! And they ask to return the chips! Brrr. My feathers are ruffling!! On 14 Jan 2004 15:56:08 -0800, (Craig) wrote: >Tempus Thales <> wrote in message news:<>... >> Hello. I've got a bone to pick with Kurz.. >> >> Why is it that K2000 owners cannot obtain free OS updates when they >> are currently available an no charge for K2500 and K26xx owners? Why >> is it that the K2000 owner is still footing the bill for R & D that >> has long since been paid for, AND paying for new research on the >> products that have free updates!? COME ON! K2000 owners pay for the >> work on upgrades owners of more recent products can get for FREE!! >> >> Anyways, that's my bone.
Is there a site where the files can be downloaded ?? "Tempus Thales" <> a écrit dans le message news: ... > Hey Craig, nice to meet you! > > >As far as I know, the upgrade is free, but the EEPROM chips they come > >on are not. Since this is a hardware upgrade, there is a manufacturing > >cost involved...thats all I can think it would be. (K2500 & K2600) can > >upgrade via MIDI. > > > > > I don't think so, otherwise they would be available for download just > as the k2500 and k2600 operating systems. > > I do have access to an EPROM burner and know what is involved in > burning software onto chips. I don't think Kurzweil or Sweetwater or > Sound Logic would be interested in sending me those files when they > can have me pay $200 for and update to 3.87. 27C4001 are 5$ a pop > (that's for the ROM blocks) and the 27C512 can be pulled from old > 8086s!! Now that's a markup! And they ask to return the chips! > > Brrr. My feathers are ruffling!! > > On 14 Jan 2004 15:56:08 -0800, (Craig) wrote: > > > >Tempus Thales <> wrote in message news:<>... > >> Hello. I've got a bone to pick with Kurz.. > >> > >> Why is it that K2000 owners cannot obtain free OS updates when they > >> are currently available an no charge for K2500 and K26xx owners? Why > >> is it that the K2000 owner is still footing the bill for R & D that > >> has long since been paid for, AND paying for new research on the > >> products that have free updates!? COME ON! K2000 owners pay for the > >> work on upgrades owners of more recent products can get for FREE!! > >> > >> Anyways, that's my bone. >
