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A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
Longtime readers of Nicole Express might know that I dabble in playing the organ. But sometimes I want to play with sounds that don’t have the organ’s defini...
It’s exactly what I said: a 90’s compact boombox form factor (maybe a little less rounded, but that’s not bad thing), the green is a little weird maybe, and then at that point you see a floppy drive on the front of it. By the standards of PC sound cards of the time, it’s generic; the AD1816AJS contains a pretty poor OPL3 clone and some other features copied off of Creative’s Soundblaster line. I don’t consider myself qualified to dig into the analog circuitry that takes up most of the rest of the interior (centered by a beefy power transformer), so that’s the inside.
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