It was noted on the Ebay sales thread.

orinoko wrote:

Shame about the price!

For a prototype board not meant for the public, I find the (current) price pretty low.
Expecting a huge jump in the last few hours on this one.

To quote the auction : "This is the jewel of my collection and a very regretful sale."
I wonder what happened that made him want/forced to sell it now 😒

That's my auction. The starting price is less than I paid for it originally, if you factor in the exchange rate.

It sounds the same as other CT1320's except a little noisier.

Beegle wrote:

I wonder what happened that made him want/forced to sell it now 😒

I've got a few things going on IRL so I have little time to play with this old kit any more, nor will I for the foreseeable future.
This card sat in my cupboard for the last couple of years, and I've done nothing with it. I think its time to pass it on to someone who might appreciate more than I do.

I'll be selling a few other things soon as well. I'll be keeping my complete retro rigs but selling my loose parts. Need to thin out my collection so it all fits in ONE room!

Gee, I'm sorry you have to sell that... 🙁

One of our other Australian members should buy that and document it well, on YouTube or something. We want audio demos!

Somehow I hope Creative will see it, and buy it if they have their own museum of company history.
Second, I hope someone can make some good loss-less audio recordings of this card.
This card is not ment to be used on regulair basis.

Yeah, I hope it gets in the proper hands not to be butchered by the new owner.

Even regular CT-1320 seem to be very and I mean very rare these days (I have CT-1320A and haven't see any other listed anywhere), but this one is unique. I wonder how many of these are left in the world. One? Three?

keenmaster486 wrote:

Gee, I'm sorry you have to sell that... 🙁

One of our other Australian members should buy that and document it well, on YouTube or something. We want audio demos!

Preferably some Australian person who has a whole lab available for retro-tinkering 😁

brostenen wrote:

Somehow I hope Creative will see it, and buy it if they have their own museum of company history.

I definitely hope that doesn't happen.

Tetrium wrote:

keenmaster486 wrote:

Gee, I'm sorry you have to sell that... 🙁

One of our other Australian members should buy that and document it well, on YouTube or something. We want audio demos!

Preferably some Australian person who has a whole lab available for retro-tinkering 😁

😉 Hint, hint...

DonutKing wrote:

That's my auction. The starting price is less than I paid for it originally, if you factor in the exchange rate. […]
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That's my auction. The starting price is less than I paid for it originally, if you factor in the exchange rate.

It sounds the same as other CT1320's except a little noisier.

Beegle wrote:

I wonder what happened that made him want/forced to sell it now 😒

I've got a few things going on IRL so I have little time to play with this old kit any more, nor will I for the foreseeable future.
This card sat in my cupboard for the last couple of years, and I've done nothing with it. I think its time to pass it on to someone who might appreciate more than I do.

I'll be selling a few other things soon as well. I'll be keeping my complete retro rigs but selling my loose parts. Need to thin out my collection so it all fits in ONE room!

Well, the price thing was more to the point that while it is perfectly reasonable, I'd not be able to afford it 🤣

I'll be keeping an eye on your ebay auctions, sounds like you might have a few more gems!

keenmaster486 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

keenmaster486 wrote:

Gee, I'm sorry you have to sell that... 🙁

One of our other Australian members should buy that and document it well, on YouTube or something. We want audio demos!

Preferably some Australian person who has a whole lab available for retro-tinkering 😁

😉 Hint, hint...

Im in Melbourne, have a 'whole lab' set up, but no funds for this... hmm... my 30th birthday is coming up...

😉 Hint, hint...

DonutKing wrote:

That's my auction. The starting price is less than I paid for it originally, if you factor in the exchange rate.

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I'll be selling a few other things soon as well. I'll be keeping my complete retro rigs but selling my loose parts. Need to thin out my collection so it all fits in ONE room!

There was a time when I was desperately looking for a classic Soundscape but what happened to the int'l parcel costs? Last time I imported from AU to ID it was under $40 iirc (and it contained a Roland MT-32). EDIT: oops it was 49.5 AUD sorry.

archsan wrote:

There was a time when I was desperately looking for a classic Soundscape but what happened to the int'l parcel costs? Last time I imported from AU to ID it was under $40 iirc (and it contained a Roland MT-32). EDIT: oops it was 49.5 AUD sorry.

Australia Post restructured their pricing recently, so shipping got considerably more expensive.
Plus I only ship registered postage which adds to the price, too much risk otherwise.

brostenen wrote:

Second, I hope someone can make some good loss-less audio recordings of this card.

DonutKing wrote:

It sounds the same as other CT1320's except a little noisier.

What else would you expect?

What Chip is beneath the Ductape ?
i'm really intressed in a dump of the mcu rom :>

The MCU is beneath the tape. I believe the ROM is protected - it just came up FF like every other protected ROM/GAL I've tried to read.

There are special techniques for reading protected MCUs.

Good luck with the auction, I hope it brings you lots of money as this piece of history deserves. I'm interested, but currently I'm saving for a laptop unfortunately.

orinoko wrote:

keenmaster486 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Preferably some Australian person who has a whole lab available for retro-tinkering 😁

😉 Hint, hint...

Im in Melbourne, have a 'whole lab' set up, but no funds for this... hmm... my 30th birthday is coming up...

😉 Hint, hint...

Umm, I'm sure the hint was for someone else. Like someone who has "lab" in their username even. 😉

DonutKing wrote:

The MCU is beneath the tape. I believe the ROM is protected - it just came up FF like every other protected ROM/GAL I've tried to read.

The MCU identify the part number under that tape? I am curious to know if CL was always using the same part number and made improvements elsewhere or were using more powerful members of the MCS-51 family as their hardware capabilities improved.