From: Dave Coder (dave@nucleus.immunol.washington.edu)
Date: Thu May 20 1993 - 13:24:04 EST
The fate of another brand instruments traded in to a competing vendor is indeed summarized in two words: land fill. They want to keep their competitor's instrument out of the marketplace. However, instruments traded in to the same company to upgrade an old instrument could meet with a different fate. Where people know what they're doing, old instruments can be refurbished and do useful work. Getting rid of old acquisition computers for new ones is not difficult. I and several others have done data acquisition programs on PCs to connect to older flow cytometers. However, issues of service, parts, support, etc. for proprietary components are often a problem. Dave Coder
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