[BC] Maintaining old transmitters (IT guys)

[Tom Taggart]

I second Mike's frustration...

One other point of frustration and expense with the computer
"upgrade cycle" is planned obsolescence. Am reluctantly
replacing main air computer, but it is 5 years old. 

Anticipating this we upgraded Simian to a version that will
work on Windows 7. Also so we could use a 32 line trigger
device, (another sad story). But the big expense will be the
sound cards--since the PCI slot has been banished from
modern motherboards. Decision was made for us when the
secondary Digigram card lost one channel. Luckily we've
found a Dell with one PCI slot,allowing us to re-use the
remaining ASI card. Though the new second sound card will
have to use the PCI express slot, and will cost as much as
the computer.

Now returning to your original transmitter thread...