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Old January 21st, 2012, 06:17 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I'm a computer repair/consultant... I just can't stand floppies... I have just never found them reliable. Last couple of times I needed one (sata drivers for win 2k or xp) I went through almost an entire box of new or barely used floppies and barely found one that would work.

If you look for usb/floppy emulators that aren't "industry specific" then you will find them at a 10th of the price! Seriously, $25 bucks... that's worth it... especially if you are going to get a usb floppy drive (those are even more).

I was just hoping someone had a make or model that they KNEW worked with it so I didn't have to fight with different ones.

I'm probably going to pick it up next week. "pick it up"... that gets me to my next hurdle. I don't even have a clue how to get this thing on a trailer and off when I get back to wherever I plan on putting it (still undecided).
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Old January 23rd, 2012, 04:15 PM   #12 (permalink)
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. Not sure what the advantage over floppies would be honestly.
Hi, I have found that any design over 200,000 stitches can be a problem with a floppy. so large jacket backs for example had to be split into mulitple pcs?

Of course we still run into the issue with machine memory itself... as many of our designs are in the millions of stitches, so I guess it really doesn't matter as we are still splitting designs into multiple pcs.
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Old January 24th, 2012, 10:34 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Yeah I guess over 200k stitches which is something I wouldn't or haven't ever done I guess. You must do some awesome designs at a million stitches. I'm pretty sure the Brother 423 (and 416a) is limited to like 200K anyway. I just use my floppy like a temporary drive and don't ever just store things on it. It's a one or 2 designs and then delete. I use HDD with network backups for storage. I've found there really isn't anything 'reliable' anymore except redundancy. In the end though... if you upgrade to a usb from floppy you still are taking the risk of messing around with the board. I myself, am not ready to even open up the case even though I've built tons of computers but the thought of frying the board and having to scrounge around for a replacement while paying 20x the actual cost isn't really worth upgrading to me.
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Old January 24th, 2012, 01:30 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Well, you know how a floppy is installed then... ridiculously simple.

I'm not concerned about storing them... like I said, last time I needed to USE a floppy I had problems finding one that would actually work, RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX in some cases... Some barely used.

Maybe my drive was dirty or something but it seems that's always the case when I NEED a floppy.
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Old March 13th, 2012, 02:05 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I have owned 3 different BAS 423 Brothers, just know that Brother no longer produces any industrial type embroidery machines. My first was purchased in 1995 and second in 1996 and my last one in 1998. I loved them all, but the last one did have a different thread break sensor that I thought worked much better. I bought all these brand new and never had any problem with them. I just needed more production and when they came out with a new 6 head, I bought those....
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Old March 13th, 2012, 02:18 PM   #16 (permalink)
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It is hard to swallow taking up 13' of room for 3 heads when you can take up the same amount of space with a more modern 6 head.

Then again, we are talking at LEAST 10x the cost too (at least for this specific machine to me).
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Simple floppy emulator for Brother BAS-423A,BAS-417

http://www.floppydrive.eu/

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCirw...qvPvUGw/videos
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_vY...F6mrV5w/videos
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Yo...5kPREzw/videos
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Hello! I am brand new to embroidery and have been gifted a BAS 415. I don't have any software though. What software did you use or would you suggest? Thanks!!
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