[sdiy] FS: CEM 3374 and 3372, six apiece. (crossposted with apologies)

[Bob Weigel]

The membrane panels often are repairable unless they are all broken on 
front.  Just in case you didn't know.  I just bought one for 60 dollars 
though fyi also which seems reasonable. -Bob

Suit & Tie Guy wrote:

> okay so i have these CEM chips. i don't really know what they're  
> worth, but the last 3374 on ebay went for 200 dollars, which i think  
> is completely preposterous. no IC is worth 200 dollars.
>
> here's some nice pretty macro photos of the lot:
>
> http://pics.livejournal.com/suitandtieguy/pic/00059k60/g85
> http://pics.livejournal.com/suitandtieguy/pic/0005a7gq/g85
> http://pics.livejournal.com/suitandtieguy/pic/0005bspg/g85
>
> all 12 chips were pulled from a Chroma Polaris that had a completely  
> unrepairable membrane panel design flaw (just using a membrane panel  
> is a design flaw, but this one was nonfunctional to boot), but was  
> functional via MIDI.
>
> since the engineering of this thing insulted me, i pulled all the  
> analogue chips out of it and threw the rest in my dumpster on top of  
> a Kimball home organ which we didn't even bother to break down  
> because it had absolutely nothing salvageable in it. and which  
> managed to have a bench which weighed nearly as much as the organ  
> because they used 1" MDF and tuck-and-roll gnawgahide.
>
> the CEM chips are in a nice fancy anti-static TI-branded tube, the  
> rest of the chips are in an anti-static bag.
>
> 525 USD takes the whole lot shipped in the US. that works out to like  
> a dollar a chip (approx.) considering the inside of this thing was a  
> chip farm. add an extra 10 bucks if i have to fill out a customs form.
>
> i offer it as a lot because there was some chatter about matching the  
> 3372s a year or two ago in the list archives, but it seemed like it  
> had something to do with lot numbers so that's why i took the nice  
> pretty pictures.
>
> and if you _really_ need the keyboard from a Polaris, let me know in  
> the next couple of days because the truck takes the dumpster away on  
> wednesday.
>
> and if you _really_ _really_ only need one chip, let me know. it'll  
> be more than a dollar though.
> ---
> Suit & Tie Guy
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