D-50 N.O.S. Parts (and for some other models) available
2007-02-27 by vintageaudio2004
Hi, I'm new to the group. Back in the late 80's I used to repair Roland D-50's, S-50's and other models, plus equipment from other brands like Alesis, Boss, Yamaha, Korg, and others. We also where the out of house service shop for an authorized Roland distributor, so they usually used to order quite a few spares and passed them on to us. Anyway, while cleaning the shop I found in a drawer a whole lot of mostly NOS D-50 (and for a few other models) chips (CPUs, ROMs, RAM, Gate Arrays, DACs, etc) plus some other parts. These have been sitting forgotten and well protected in this drawer for 20+ years and where just recently rediscovered. So if anyone might be interested please visit my web page where I published the list (which you can also download there as an Excel sheet, CSV, or Text file). Incidentally the list was just updated today as a few additional parts that where found and added. I was initially thinking of selling these parts through ebay, but decided it would require a lot of effort, and also decided I wanted to offer them first at a few Roland enthusiast forums and groups, to give members a chance first, and in hope that the parts will possibly help resurrect cherished vintage gear that has been forced to gather dust for some time now. As expected some parts have already been sold, so if you're in need of any of these either for a repair, or maybe just to stock up for future needs, please let me know. I have no idea (so far haven't done any market research) on the fair value for any of these parts, so I haven't set any selling prices yet. I'm open to (hopefully) fair suggestions. Might also consider selling the whole lot as a package deal if anyone would be interested. Please feel free to ask any questions about the parts either posting them here so other could also benefit from my answers, or via direct email preferably to the address specified at a web page specifically setup for the parts and located here: http://miwww.com/rolandelectronicparts There I also posted general pics of most parts, but I'll be more than happy to send any interested party pictures of any particular part(s) upon request. Thanks for having me here. -Alex