Veronica,

Microcosm, a new company to our arena, has set themselves up to upgrade LSM
410's.  I don't have their contact info in my registry but know that they
are located in Columbia, MD.  Perhaps you can find them on the web.

Good luck!

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At 03:43 PM 12/7/99 +0530, veronica Rodrigues wrote:
>Dear Confocal Users,
>We have very limited finances and are looking at used or refurbished
>confocal microscopes so that we can purchase something inexpensively.  I
>have two questions:
>
>1. We have been offered an LSM410 demonstration model which sort of is in
>the range of our budget.  However we have heard some negative reports about
>this system and would appreciate advisers from users of this system. We are
>going to several users most of whom will be novices and there is no real
>expert amongst us.  So it needs to be user friendly.
>
>2. Do you know of any other offers that may exist around?  The purchase has
>to be through a regular company so that our institute will entertain
>offers.
>
>Thanks for any advise.
>
>Veronica
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