>I'm in the same boat with a FACStar+. The problem is that you have to upgrade >the cytometer's hardware to interface with the Mac. From what I understand BD >won't just sell you the upgraded interface and let you buy your own Mac. >(That >way they can also sell you a $2000 computer for $4000. Nice margin!) Any BD >lurkers want to clarify this point? > >David McFarland >Howard Hughes Medical Institute >Flow Cytometry Facility >Vanderbilt University Medical Center David, I cant answer for the starplus but when we upgraded our Scan to Mac and Cellquest, they let us buy our own computer etc. However this is not neeassarily a good idea, if you do not buy it from them they do not support it and you will need good in house computer people to keep you up and running., and get a good printer we went with a cheap one with no memory and printing is very slow, not a good thing in a busy lab. Jill Jill Martin, Manager Molecular Biology & Flow Cytometry Core Johnson Research Building Mayo Clinic Scottsdale 480-301-6071 (Voice) 480 301-7017 (FAX) email: jmartin@mayo.edu or martin.jill@mayo.edu > > > > > > > >Charles Robinson <cerobins@uclink4.berkeley.edu> on 12/06/99 03:16:00 PM > > > > > (Embedded image moved to file: pic12408.pcx)From:(Embedded image moved to > > file: pic06135.pcx)Charles Robinson <cerobins@uclink4.berkeley.edu> on > > 12/06/99 03:16 PM > > > > > > > > > To: Cytometry Mailing List > <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu> > > cc: (bcc: David McFarland/VUMC/Vanderbilt) > > > > Subject: Upgrade to FACSort > > > > > > > > > >I use a FACSort driven by a Quadra 650. BD wants around $8000 for a new >computer system. Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade the computer >to a faster processor, like a PowerMac, without buying the system from BD? > >Thanks, > > > >Charles E. Robinson, Ph.D. >Laboratory of Bruce N. Ames >Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute >5700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way >Oakland, California 94609 > >voice: (510) 428-3885 x 5274 >fax: (510) 450-7910 > >crobinson@mail.chori.org > > > > >Content-type: application/octet-stream; > name="pic12408.pcx" >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pic12408.pcx" > >Attachment converted: MOLBIO:pic12408.pcx (????/----) (0000FC0F) >Content-type: application/octet-stream; > name="pic06135.pcx" >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pic06135.pcx" > >Attachment converted: MOLBIO:pic06135.pcx (????/----) (0000FC10)
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