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I've often wondered how "my" old 400 is doing....purchased in Sandusky OH at Lombardi
Music in 1972...serial # 328....allegedly the second tron in Ohio at the time. Dave Kean
sold it for me to someone in New York area in the late 90s...I had an Anvil ATA case and
babied the thing all the time I had it (25 years) and usually was on one end of it when it
was moved. When the unit was picked up for shipping to the new owner they turned the
case UPSIDE DOWN(!) argghhh so Kean said when the guy got it there were problems.
I had the paint job re-done before I sold it. The lid had multiple cracks in the paint finish
from the day I got it.
Fortunately I recorded each note of my tape sets onto my Tascam for archival storage
and sampling (now residing in my E4K). I still wonder where it wound up....
I had the tron on mountain tops in California and desert heat in Arizona and Arctic
subzero temps of the Midwest and it only broke down once in Las Vegas (a big blue
capacitor blew) and only ever broke a couple of tapes...not bad for 25 years. But I always
treated it like an acoustic guitar when it was moved, and kept it clean and demagged.