I remember when QSI was right up there with tsunami, loksound, etc. but haven't heard anything from them in years, are they somehow still in business? Their website is still up but a lot of things are missing or broken, and the decoders seem impossible to find nowadays. (not looking to buy one just wondering about their status)
I was wondering the same. Their distributor went out of business.
QSI still have some of the best decoders for simulating a real steam or diesel. But their manuals were insane. The PI SI programming was a nightmare. Even the software didn't help much.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Welcome to the forums.
QSI was tangled up in some nasty litigation with a few companies and I don't think they really bounced back from them. Ever since other lower cost sound decoders came on the market they faded into obscurity. They had great sound and motor control but programming was sometimes troublesome. Especially all the indexed CVs.
Pete.
There is still an active IO group for QSIndustries, but the QSI website it links to (which touts their new "Titan" decoder line) appears to have not been updated since 2019.
https://groups.io/g/QSIndustries
Not a good sign that the latest 'official' revision of the programming manual in QSI's site still says the latest information by decoder revision number is on Yahoo Groups. The end of Groups was a distressingly long time ago...