The verdict is in…

…and it’s the motherboard! The replacement is already lined up. Apparently it’s a fairly unique mobo, so we’re having to order its replacement all the way from Canada. Hopefully I’m no more than two weeks away from having the Avid up and running.
Speaking of which, there’s another piece of equipment I haven’t devoted any blawg time to as yet: a 4-track studio cassette recorder that came with all of the gear. I don’t know what this was being used for in the original configuration of the equipment, but it’s a nice piece of kit.

It has serial ports on the back for automation control and, I’m presuming, punch-in pedals. The inputs come in both standard mic jack and XLR jack flavors. It’s quite a step up from the 4-track cassette recorder that a lot of the older stuff in my music section was recorded on. Put simply, this haul is making me want to re-energize a lot of my creative juices.
And my cats just want to wrestle next to all these Avid parts that are waiting for a nice safe motherboard to be plugged back into:

My wife saw a calico kitten sitting on someone’s woodpile today while she was delivering their mail, meowing to get her attention (that is to say, the kitten was meowing to get my wife’s attention, not vice versa, though I’m not saying that it couldn’t happen), and wondered if it was homeless. Could there be another little furry mouth to feed in our future…? Would Othello stand a chance against two playful calico girl kitties? Would anyone in this house ever sleep again? Tune in next time!