From 1984, what a cool little system, all the buttons and sliders are so 1980's in a good way, the speakers could have used a little refinement but this has got to be one of the cooler looking keyboards of the 80's.
8 bit keys did a nice review of that one The TableHooters site gives a price of 1199DM in Germany back in 1986. Feeding that though a inflation gives me 1085 Euros in today's money. No wonder these things are rare.
I saw that video a while back, it looks like there's a ton of electronics stuffed in the case. For the most part, Casio had some really entry-level boomboxes and portables but a handful were outstanding efforts.
I've never seen one, or even a UK advert or catalogue entry for one. Tablehooters took ages to track one down. I forgot to add a link to his site. http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/Casio_KX-101.html From what I have read, good luck in finding one that still works,
Great website Longman, some of the "new" stuff is from 2007. I miss the early days of the internet when super-informative websites like this were popping up everywhere, so many have disappeared and were never replaced. The guys putting them up knew a lot but sadly they're probably too old to want to put them back up.
Can't look at it without recalling a couple takes I saw on it in the day: A 'Box with a slide-out keyboard. Top-prize a friend was gunning for in a elementary-school subscription drive contest or something. (Can't recall) A one-piece "keyboard" my uncle had, with full-size keys and a built-in cassette deck. I don't know if he still has it... but knowing him, he's gonna hold onto it like that well-dated printer in his garage that "has 'real-gold' circuitry!".
Sharp MR990 ? https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2008/09/01/the-bizarre-sharp-mr-990-synth-boombox/ Not full size keys, but the Casio CK500 ? I have commented before how stupidly expensive this was. The MT68, which was / is a very nice keyboard, was less than half the price. There were at least two more keyboard/ boombox variants and by the look of it some AKAs e.g https://www.google.com/search?q=sharp+boombox+musical+keyboard&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=IAffhgtHI_PWNM%2CfiSYXJKzJ1VSnM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRml1-zkgqyl5pSH4K6WEjQ7IK3Cw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHzqnVlIzrAhWxuXEKHSONASQQ9QEwAHoECAYQGQ&biw=1644&bih=870#imgrc=gU44O4ZgaalXvM As for "real gold circuity" I have a Pentium Pro here somewhere. At the rate the gold price is going up it must be appreciating.
i have had a couple of sharp mr 990 back in the day, think i gave them away as the cassettes no longer worked
No, my friend's quarry was less elaborate (I.e.: cheaper) and wasn't the Casio, either. As for my uncle's: It was a single deck, not dual, sadly.
There are 4 cassette boomboxes with built-in keyboards. Casio KX101 pain in the knee! Casio CK500 clumsy Casio CK200 flimsy Fisher SC300 (Sanyo KBX-7) : amazing In the past i used to collect some of the above models then i realize that only the Fisher model is durable and reliable. The other three always have some kind of problems.
The Fisher/Sanyo Unit uses a Casio Keyboard! It also pops up for sale much more than the others but all of them tend to be "parts units." I gave up a long time ago on having all of my stuff work, most do shelf duty until I get some extra energy and put one on the work bench.
What I meant as comparing all the available models was the boombox itself. the movement mechanism for the other 3 Casio is not reliable at all. But Fisher made a good sturdy boombox with a useless Keyboard that just looks nice .
I know Boodokhan, I was surprised to learn that Sanyo used a Casio Keyboard, kind of an obscure keyboard. I posted a thread about it awhile back, I think the retail keyboard had a plate where the boombox-keyboard connection was made on the boombox model.
