Awesome vintage DAT conquest today

[ppuskari]

Okay pictures will come as soon as I get done verifying everything is functional.

I was at the mega church World Harvest church near Columbus, OH today for their annual garage sale.. They ALWAYS have something for me it seems. This year was better than ever. Picked up the following for 15 bucks TOTAL.

1. TASCAM DA-45HR - 24Bit 48khz and FULLY functional

2. Alesis XT 8 track DAT - Fully Functional and formatting a SVHS tape at present

3. Panasonic SV-3700 Dat - Looks clean - Up for bench next

4. TASCAM DA-302 - Dual DAT machine - Looks okay but missing headphone volume knob, and a cracked dat face Drive one - Will test soon.

Not too shabby. The Alesis will DEFINITELY get hooked up to my Protools Nubus rig soon through the protools ADAT interface. Been waiting to find one of these cheap for years now. The DA-45HR will come in handy with the MIX system if I ever get one. But at least this is my first 24bit gear for the lab.

 

[Bunsen]

$15 for that lot??? That's phenomenal!

1. TASCAM DA-45HR - 24Bit 48khz and FULLY functional

Wow, outstanding. Great mastering machine for doing an analog mixdown from the ADAT.

2. Alesis XT 8 track DAT - Fully Functional and formatting a SVHS tape at present

That's an ADAT, not a DAT - it's 8 times as useful!

So jealous. My Sony TCD-D7 DAT Walkman is in dire need of a service.

 

[ppuskari]

Yeah that's right. the ALESIS is 8 track. It worked very well in last nights' testing.

Well... Here's the scoop. I'm not 100% I'm going to fix the other two or put them on on ebay for parts machines but sadly two of them are sickly.

The Panasonic SV3700 - Lights up and tape drawer works properly open shut, but any tape inserted is pretty much ignored after some clicking like the tape isn't threading maybe.

The TASCAM DA-302 - The dual one. Works great IF the tape is recognized properly. Started out with ER01 and ER03 codes on both sides and now more often than not Drive2 will not load a tape on door close, but Drive1 will about 60% of the time. IF the tape inserts and threads properly then both sides record great. It only has 109 and 85 hours on the heads.

Anyone know a reasonable repair shop? or want to try their luck with one or both for extremely reasonable costs?

I'm with Bunsen. I can't complain at all for what like even on ebay pricing about 700.00 in working machines, and about 50 to 100 in the parts machines for next to nothing. And to top it off today is my birthday.

(Just got the lastest Computer Music magazine and MusicTech magazines which feature mixing and mastering as this months topics too!) Mix it old school! Mix it on a MAC!

 

[ppuskari]

Was able to make it back to the garage sale at the big church again today.

This time for 20 bucks total I came home with...

1. Alesis XT - 8 Track ADAT record (yes another one) and is working order as well with minor svhs carriage issue

2. Panasonic 3750 - Commercial SVHS video tape recorder - Works great

3. Pioneer Dual Cassette Tape Deck - Just like my 1994 Technics TR232 Double Tape Deck

4. Optimus Dual Cassette Tape Deck - Identical to the above but the Radio Shack brand labeling

5. SCS Sound Code Systems 2600A 600W Mono/450W Stereo MOSFET Amplifier

6. SCS Sound Code Systems 2350A 350W Mono/275W Stereo MOSFET Amplifier

7. Sony 6 gang Cassette Tape Duplicator

While I had the chance I'm thinking I should have grabbed the other 3 Amps they had there.. But they weigh nearly 50lbs a piece.

Well, I'm broke for about a month now... Time to figure out how to connect all this stuff up to something.

 

[Bunsen]

And to top it off today is my birthday.

8-o Nowai!! Today is my birthday! Happy birthday solstice buddy!

Sounds like the Tascam dual might be worth rescuing. Did you look up the error codes?

This time for 20 bucks total I came home with...

Oh just stop it already!! Stay home!!! GHAH!!

:lol: jk :b&w:

Lovely set of scores for $35 I must say - especially those amps. They sound like studio monitoring amps, which would make sense given the context of everything else they've cleaned out this weekend. Who knows - if you ask around, maybe the matching speakers will turn up

1. Alesis XT - 8 Track ADAT record (yes another one) and is working order as well with minor svhs carriage issue

So now you can sync them up for 16 track action

 

[ppuskari]

Thanks Bunsen for the comments.

Yeah, I'm still pretty stoked.. I just hope I've not used up all my good luck in one place this past weekend.

Yeah, this church regularly cycles out it's TV production hardware every few years and much of it ends up in the big yearly garage sales. Most of the damage to the units I got was done in people tossing them around in the big boxes at the sale or in transport in and out of the warehouse storage. I hate it when that happens to perfectly good equipment.

I missed the speakers that went with all the amps on the first day. The guy said they sold 8 pair of auditorium speakers for 40 bucks a pop... These are huge since the auditorium there sits 7000 on a Sunday. He said they ran the amps all in mono mode one to a speaker. So I guess since the amps are rated 20amps each, that's a pretty good power bill when run solid for 2 services 4 hours a pop. So 8x600W, and 8x350W = 7600W = 7.6 KW

Okay Don't Touch the CAPACITORS!! }

Yeah, I might just have to see if I can get the Magi II, Protools 4.x, and the ADAT interfaces and a couple 888's and the Alesis units all hooked up to have tactile access to all 16 channels with automation. I can dream.

Forgot one more item from the haul.

1. IBM PS/2 Model 60 - 80286 with 80287 with 30pin sims in the strange metal square package, 44 meg 5.25" FULL height MFM hard drive, and MicroChannel MFM controller. Haven't powered it up yet though. It's missing the MC VGA card, MC ethernet card, and maybe a MC SCSI card. All of which I actually do have in my box of old MC stuff though. Windows 3.1 WFW works on a 286????

Oh and belated Happy Birthday too Bunsen :lol:

 

[Bunsen]

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[Anonymous Freak]

Yup, WfW 3.11 runs just fine on a 286. You miss out on the high-performance 32-bit storage and networking drivers; but it runs just fine.

 

[Paralel]

I can confirm that. I actually ran WFW 3.11 on a 286-16 about 16 years ago (still have the disks, although the system met a sad fate )

 

[yuhong]

It's missing the MC VGA card

VGA is built-in to most PS/2s!

 

[ppuskari]

VGA is built-in to most PS/2s!

Well, that is my duh of the day.... Show's how much one can forget along the way. :?:

After looking at the back of the machine in the garage before going to work this morning, it indeed does have the standard 15pin vga port, serial, parallel, and the two ps/2 connectors on the backplane. What originally threw me is that 3 of the MC covers are missing and the cards I had from a PS/2 80 with a Reply 80 replacement mb in it at the time had 3 addon cards.. VGA, Ethernet, and SCSI..

This machine is destined to host my old IBM 8514 Touch Display in WFW 3.11 and DOS 6.x It's always neato to watch the Xilnix code get downloaded on startup to the touch display. Haven't hooked it up to anything in about 8 years now.