This is the first project of many that will be posted on here. I picked up this little monster up for just a little more than $100 here in Philly. It had some nasty problems so it became a nice project piece.
When I first bought it home it refused to even power up, but with a little disassembly and a replaced fuse, it booted right up. Screen has a few lines and the Headphone jack is trashed, but other than it, it’s not a bad machine, now waiting for parts to finish it up.
Installing one of my custom card readers (which will be available soon) and installing and 8 output board that will need some modding since it’s from an akai S-2000 sampler. After all that I’ll be giving it a custom BEATSTATUS skin.
I’ll post some before and after pics once I get it all completed, right now it looks like this though:
Stay Tuned
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April 12th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Damn – that’s a nice deal!
$100 for an mpc, few bucks for a fuse and a headphone socket – really cheap. It’s a shame I can’t get this kind of deal in UK :/
April 12th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Just gotta keep looking! You guys have gumtree over there right? I think that’s similar to craigslist.
April 12th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Yeah – gumtree is more popular than craigslist (UK’s craigslist is pretty much dead, to be specific) but I don’t trust these kind of such sites.
On the other hand – I can’t be to much of a paranoid