Good price for two Tates, with a remote.
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I've only ever had one chip go bad and that was on a unit that I had ran for forty years! Coupling capacitors should be replaced (with film types) in the Composer. The Tate II has film type coupling capacitors installed already. It helps to be handy with a soldering iron.Yuck! There is no good price. Things are ticking time bombs, I'll never see any of the money I put into mine ever again, nor will I ever see my tate again. $1000 is a lot to spend on something that has irreplaceable chips that can die at any moment.
I've lost way too much money on "vintage" equipment. Nothing was ever built to last.
I suppose I ought to sell the tate remote I have, as I doubt I'll ever see my tate again, nor find one in a reasonable price range.
Already gone! I don't get why anyone who has one (let alone two) would ever want to part with them. He should have asked more, double even!
I suspect that in most cases these units (as well as the S&IC) only come up when the original owner passes away. Sadly that is becoming a common occurrence now that we original "Quadies" are getting older.
I suppose I ought to sell the tate remote I have, as I doubt I'll ever see my tate again, nor find one in a reasonable price range.
There's nothing to send. It went to be serviced. Over 10 years ago. I bought a dolby board for more chips. Over 5 years ago. The guy is now in the hospital. It's never coming back, I'll never own a tate again, I'll never see my tate again. Just another example of many where I buy vintage equipment, and all I get for it is grief and a loss of money.Well, it's probably a ticking time bomb anyway!
You should probably send it my way, just to be safe. I'll burden the frustration of old, dying, vintage equipment!!
That's an unhappy circumstance @ArmyOfQuad. I feel bad you have experienced that...it definitely zaps the joy out of it.There's nothing to send. It went to be serviced. Over 10 years ago. I bought a dolby board for more chips. Over 5 years ago. The guy is now in the hospital. It's never coming back, I'll never own a tate again, I'll never see my tate again. Just another example of many where I buy vintage equipment, and all I get for it is grief and a loss of money.
You cam across Tate 2 chips on a Dolby board? I have bought a few and only found Tate 1 chips. My Tate 2 has "muddy" sound in all modes except mono and bypass, i think its the chips . My Tate 1 however is doing great and has two sets of spare chips. Thinking of selling the Tate 2 unless i can find more Tate 2 chips.There's nothing to send. It went to be serviced. Over 10 years ago. I bought a dolby board for more chips. Over 5 years ago. The guy is now in the hospital. It's never coming back, I'll never own a tate again, I'll never see my tate again. Just another example of many where I buy vintage equipment, and all I get for it is grief and a loss of money.
The National chips were the originals. The Exar chips replaced them, they were both used in the S&IC. According to Steve Kennedy's post (here someplace) about half of the Space & Image Composers produced used the National chips the other half used the Exar chips. About half of the decoders using the National chips were returned for the "upgrade" to the Exar chips.Can you tell me which are the tate I chips and which are the Tate II chips?
Were the Tate II chips fixed as opposed to the first set?
I know national semiconductor made one set....what should I look for to identify? Should know this already but I cant recall.
Or are you talking about models the original Tate opposed to the common Tate II decoder?
I should also ask which chip the composer used the first one I would presume...
As far as we know. No boards have been found (by anyone here) using the Exar chips but that is not to say that they don't exist. We just don't know for sure.Thanks.
So according to Furui above youll only find the first chips the National brand if you are lucky on some dolby boards. So Dolby did not repurpose the Exars.
There are still some dolby models which i suspect may jave tate chips but it is a great cost to take a chance on buying them without being sure.As far as we know. No boards have been found (by anyone here) using the Exar chips but that is not to say that they don't exist. We just don't know for sure.
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