On 08/27/2018 03:41 PM, Jason Barnett wrote:
Even if the USB standard still exists in some form, it will be the drivers that will likely be the biggest problem.
I actually had a similar issue last winter. Our vintage 1987 church organ fine wore out. Parts were no longer easily available. We were offered a digital organ, vintage 2008. It came with a CD with a program to be used to "voice" the organ. That program runs on Windows XP. The company is still in operation, but the current software does not correctly handle our 2008 model. As it happens, I had a laptop, my old Acer Aspire, which I asked questions about on this list a good number of years ago, and had run Linux Mint on. It does not support newer OSs, being only a 32 bit machine. So, long story short, I still had the original restore CD for the machine, and was able to load Win XP, and the organ voicing software. The organ technician was able to use it. It now resides, locked away, in the church basement, with a large note instructing anyone who finds it that they must leave it as is to support the organ. We may never need to use it again, but if we do, that is likely the only tool available to do the job. Even the organ tech doesn't have a copy anymore.
Fun with advancing technology. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
