I pulled out one of my ancient EC catalogs (who are you calling a hoarder??) and there they were! See? -- it does pay to keep old stuff around!
The Celebrity Plus was pretty much a
conventional lighting board with all the bells and whistles you still see nowadays, but only for controlling dimmers. It had a
level setting &
cue recording keypad,
level and
fader wheels, color video display and a
softpatch module. There was also an optional cassette tape drive for show backup. You could order the board with up to 60 channels of 2-scene
preset.
The Celebrity had the 2-scene
preset, the
softpatch module, and optional tape drive, but also came with 24 or 48 programmable scene masters.
Both of these boards spoke EC-Mux
protocol, which like
DMX supported 512
dimmer levels but inexplicably ran it on only one data
wire plus common -- a source of many headaches over the years. Their average age is now 25, so replacement is definitely overdue if you still have one!