Lexicon PCM70 legacy digital effects unit ...

Ebay #260659423706

JC

Thanks very much for that. I put the owner onto it, but I'm not sure if he is going to be able to get it, as the seller is in the US and we are in the UK. When he tried to do a 'buy it now' on it, it refused him as not qualifying for some of the sellers set criteria for buyers, and the one causing the problem was "seller does not ship to your location". He is now in the process of contacting the seller to see if he will exempt him from the condition as it is small and Jiffy-baggable, and ship it anyway. Again, thanks for the pointer.

Arfa

Most US sellers will ship to the UK if asked, the problem with offering Worldwide shipping on Ebay is all the duff countries that sellers are exposed to. If its a problem I'm sure some of us Stateside can help with shipping a small item. JC

Thanks. I'll let you know how we get on, and if we need any help getting it

Arfa

I have for sale if you still need.

I am in Atlanta Ga

Got it off an old Oberheim thought is the exact same part!

Also have a PCM 70 NOS somewhere in here...

If I find it I will give a quote.

Cheers,

Nate

Thanks very much Nate - that's very helpful. Can you please mail me off-group using the same address as I used to post this, so we can discuss exactly what you have, and how much you need for it ? Thanks

Arfa

You have the part number mangled. It's an NEC FIP1615R. Plenty of substitutes available:

On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:10:39 +1100, Phil Allison pissed:

I agree :)

Nope. My varifocals are working just fine. It says on the display, very clearly NEC FIP16A5 although the "1" could also be another "I" or vice versa, as they appear indistinguishable from each other. The one in the link on flea bay, is a one-off second hand one, and appears to match my part number. Archon already pointed me at that one earlier in the thread. Unfortunately, the seller does not ship worldwide as part of his sale conditions, and because it is on the U.S. site and we are accessing from a UK account, it won't even let us mail the seller direct to ask if he would consider shipping it to the UK. We are currently working on that problem via a different route.

In the meantime Jeff, if you have a type number for a compatible substitute display, and a link to somewhere you have found that has them available, please share. It would be appreciated. Putting FIP1615R into Goggle yields no results, other than entries from this thread.

Arfa

Oops. Try searching for NEC FIP16A5R instead. My typo error. Ok, for penetance, I'll do some digging.

This looks interesting:

Stocks PCM-70 parts, but not the display. Might be worth a phone call to see if he has any pointers.

Digging through this thread:

there are some interesting hints. Message #6 looks interesting:

Search Digikey for D0116SY-20-1601FB-ND. Looks promising if it's the same size. That leads to:

which makes similar displays.

List of VFD manufactories:

Various candidates from Futaba:

Can I go back to work now?

Nice. I like the old analog synths. That one is older than my oldest.

If you looked carefully at my collection, the middle one is a Korg PolySix first produced in 1981:

References:

It's a tempermental beast of a keyboard, but it makes fine music. It still has some kind of a problem with two of oscillators, which I'll fix next time I'm inspired. There are also various web pages recommending replacements and substitutions which should improve things. Incidentally, most of the damage was caused by a leaky roof dripping dirty water into the keys.

Showing off, live and full of mistakes:

You can't use Ebay messages to contact a US seller from the UK site? That's interesting. JC

Yessir ! You can ....

Thanks for that. I'll check them out

Arfa

Well, you certainly used to be able to, but things change on eBay all the time. I'm relying here on what my mate who owns the thing said when he tried. He has a shop, and buys and sells on eBay all the time, so is an experienced user. The first problem that he ran into when he tried to do a "buy now" was that international sales were not supported by this seller as one of his conditions, When he then tried to "contact seller", it wouldn't let him, just putting up a series of questions and answers, I think he said. Now, whether that is because he has this 'no international sales' thing set or not, I really don't know. However, we've now been able to contact the guy by a different route, and he has agreed that he will ship to the UK.

Arfa

Ah, the pre answered questions thing, totally useless. At the bottom of that list of options it says "other", if you choose that it will lead you to a point where you can actually contact the seller. Infuriating.

Good to hear you got it all sorted. JC

Nice collection Jeff. And your playing isn't that bad. My very first synth was an Octave Cat.

It taught me how all the filters/oscillators/envelops/ stuff interacted but being purely monophonic it wasn't much more in my hands than a noise maker.

I traded the Cat for a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.

Damn! 5 voice polyphony! heh. Excellent string sounds. Striking actually even for today. Alas no MIDI but hell I didn't even know what that was back then.

Wish I would have held on to that because they are pretty rare these days.

In the 90's I bought a new Kawai K1/II:

WOW! PCM synth (albeit 8 bit) 256 samples, two extra sample cards, MIDI I felt like a pig rolling in shit! Great today for hair band keys, nice padded strings and horns, raw square and sawtooth powerleads. Wish I would have held off for a year when they came out with 16 bit PCM.

No internal sampling everything loads through floppy. The belt on the floppy turned to rubber snot. Replaced, still wouldn't load. Tweaked the head positions and BINGO, sound libraries loaded. Not a bad little synth. Arpeggio, mic input to record your own samples. Have a sample of my one niece when she was a toddler saying "I love you" too cute.

Now my quest is to own a Korg Triton rack. That is if one of my present keyboards MIDI track well with a rack and there is not latency.

I also own a Casio MG-510 MIDI guitar:

Very similar to the one in the picture but with 3 single coil pickups. Note tracking is very good for the age of the MIDI controller. There is some latency maybe 50ms. It's noticeable but easy to get used to. It's also a very good sounding and playing guitar. I used it for gigs back in the 90's. Occasionally layered guitar and MIDI together.

Still interested after all these years? I've got one.

JF3

I forwarded to Arfa

email me, with a valid email return address.

Jeff