You may have noticed the announcement of ThermoFisher Scientific (Sep 2020) communicating the end-of-life of popular and widely used Applied Biosystems 3130/xl sequencers.
Have you ever seen the Applied Biosystems 7900HT Real-Time PCR system? Without really knowing what you are looking at, you probably didn’t like it. In my opinion this is the ugliest qPCR instrument ever, grey, huge, heavy and noisy.