GRisdale Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 A simple question - can't seem to find the answer. (Google is NOT my friend).Ideally I need to know when they first came out, but would settle for when the 2s were released - just the year is fine. Cheers,Gareth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peternewman Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 In the absence of Mr Kirkup, issue 4 of the Betapack owners information (on the Zero 88 support pages linked from our wiki) is copyright 1993. Issue 3 of the Betapack 2 document is 2003. How close these are to actual release dates and how many of the revisions before were public ones after launch and not internal ones I don't know, but its a rough idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Bunting Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 IIRC, Betapaks were designed to compete with Strand's ACT 6, which were launched in 1984, but I see that it wasn't until 1990 that Zero released version 1 HTH Richard Graham Eales explains: "Since its original launch in 1990 Zero 88 have sold hundreds of thousands of Betapack dimming channels across the globe. In fact if you were to place all these dimmers one of top of each other the pile would stretch higher that Mount Everest! The Betapack has universal appeal from small schools right through to international casino complexes. At the end of the day there are many six channel dimmers in the market, but it's the Betapack that technicians rely on to get the job done." Added to provide confirmation of information, and not meant as any advertisement or endorsement in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham NZ Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Hi Richard beat me to it but he is correct, first production runs in 1990 but there are a few collector's ones floating around that were done as samples that came out in late 1989 BestGrahamZero 88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRisdale Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Many thanks fellas - case closed. Gareth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBoomal Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Is there an easy way of telling which year mine were manufactured? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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