Looks like the mythological Dynasty 280 is ALIVE!!bawahahaha. It lives!!

Noticed a few things. It happens to have a easy start up too. Not sure if it works identical to ours, but we have one. Looks like they get you a limited, but fairly useable set of features on the regular 280, but stick you for an extra 600 bucks to get the good stuff.

Looks like they have rolled out upgradeable software. Which appears to give expanded features/performance for a price. You pay to play so to speak. We have an internal interface in ours that allows us to do "approved" upgrades. It could be moved to a USB port I imagine at the rear of the machine, but then how many of you guys would want to go monkeying around with the software??? Yeah. You know who you are. lol. Given the popularity of the arduino thread, we have our likely suspects.lol.