But if it IS just analysis you're after, you can get three copies of
FCSPress for the price of the (~$450) B-D upgrade quoted here (and you're
well on the way to affording a copy of FlowJo), and run on any mac with
system 7.1 to 9.0 bought from a third party at street price.
You can try FCSPress for free before you buy it from
http://www.fcspress.com, or fax +44 870 7408595 for an information sheet.
Ray
(FCSPress is a program written by me and I do profit from it if you buy it!
Users of G4/OS9 should run the bundled USB Floppy Enabler Installer before
launching FCSPress for the first time)
At 8:08 pm +0000 8/3/00, CJett wrote:
>Instead of growling on the list..talk to the BD rep! The Target release
>from BD is the end of this month ....for G4 ACQ upgrades and OS9 "Fully"
>compatible version of CellQuest. The Software upgrade is supposed to cost
>~$450 and the G4 upgrade around $3800. I've heard this from BD tech support
>and two BD sales reps. And give them a lil credit: re-writing acquisition
>software for a major architechture shift as we have with the G4 is not a
>simple matter.
>
> If you own a BD instrument...harass BD..the reps are usually (in my
>experience) pretty helpful if there is something within their control. If
>you upgraded to OS9 without checking for compatibility first, consider it an
>object lesson...{C'mon with Apple's track record?.} just because they
>upgrade the OS DOES NOT mean they improved it! Remember the MacOS 7.5 to
>8.0 issues??? And in the end, if it isn't broke...why "FIX" it???
>Version stability with MAC OS and Acq Hardware has never been good with
>Apple.
>
>>As to original problem of CellQuest on a G4 I can see two solutions -
>>give up on CellQuest (give FlowJo a try!) or keep pestering BD to
>>come up with the patch to allow CellQuest to work with OS9.0.
>>
>>Adrian
>
>OK Flow JO is great ANALYSIS software, for most things....but it still will
>not Acquire data, allow back gating of populations and is not the easiest
>for "Graphical" Analysis...so the mantra of "dumping" Cellquest and moving
>to FlowJo is over simplistic at best and is only a solution for those who
>never touch the FACS their data comes from in the first place. And it still
>isn't available for the PC platform, so once again, it is not a cure-all.
Ray Hicks
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