Customer had a lightning strike at his site---took out several line ports and station cards in the expansion unit of a 5-6 year old DX-80 with 8-port hard drive VM.

We are replacing both cabinets with DX-120s. I would like to leave the old VM on there for a week or so, until we have time to get the new VM programmed here in the shop. Question---can I do that and NOT run into compatability problems.

I went into the trans.txt of our VM in shop (with 120 cabinet) and I noticed that it still has the 740 etc CO line numbers instead of the 800 designation. I would suspect that if one needed to change something in there--you'd have to use the correct Line port numbers----Yes??

We will be doing this Saturday morning.

Also---just a note. It seems like the damage was routed to the Expansion Unit rather that the Main one with the CPU & VM. If that's a design feature--that's a good sign---if it's just random circumstance--then--I guess we were lucky.

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