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Really vintage :)

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I found this at EB. Just imagine its assembly. What a futuristic design..LOL

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Vintage-DDR-Port ... 2170wt_922
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That is a thing of beauty.
Appreciated all of the detailed pictures.

Good to practise reading German too.
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It looks like the one seen in the movie A Clockwork Orange.
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Nice! We had one like this with my brother back in the '80s or so, I think... Bought it used and didn't look this good ever, and was probably even one generation older (switches and sliders design look more modern on this). However, the exact same colors, functionality, even the pedal and the knee 'thing'.

Was a b!tch to repair, though... Plastic parts of the keyboard kept snapping, corroded contacts kept giving grief all the time and those failing germanium transistors became just plain irreplacable after a while... The whole thing would fit on the smallest FPGA chip today, I guess (except the Hammond spring reverb, which was nice! :D).
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