Those Crazy Keyboards from the 80's

I have some huge keyboards from the early 90's but I haven't really messed with them, I love the smaller older models because they are easier to haul around. The big ones do suffer from damage to the keys, they all seem to yellow and break. My first nice keyboard was a Yamaha PSS-460, I really loved it and learned quite a bit (although I forgotten most of it).

 

A sweet Casio VL-Tone from 1981, these early ones really set the market on fire, kind of inexpensive but you could have so much fun with them.

 

They never come over here! That's funny he's got one on stage, I wonder how many spares they have to carry.

 

This is cool, from 1985, very late in the life cycle of the Apple II+, the Greengate DS:3, check out the big card that had to be plugged in, this was one of the reasons the Apple II+ was popular and lasted so long, there was something like 7 expansion slots on the motherboard. When products like this started coming out we all thought we'd learn the piano in a few days using computer teaching. This system still has larger floppy discs and can do 10 second samples, I wrote a program to record music off cassette onto discs and could only get, I think, 15 seconds due to memory or CPU limitations, I can't remember but it was way cool playing music off a disc back then.

 

This is fun looking, our ebay only shows UK Listings, maybe never sold over here?
The Yamaha DD-10 from 1988

 

Casio PT-1 from 1984, looks pretty basic but it was a four-color ad, maybe a lost-cost version with memory?

 

I love this video, check out the killer Casio Keyboard Collection including some rare gems.

 

Those are great boomboxes C2G, I've got one here in my office; I think the keyboard is made by Casio but can't remember off the top of my head.

I love that little PT-7, it just looks cool but it also goes for silly money since it's so rare.
I have the VL-1, MT-500 (maybe), SK-1,

 

Another oddball kind of like the Omnicord

 

Those are nice, the keyboard is made by Casio!

 

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