Ebay of the Day: Remco Sound FX Machine

I had one of these when I was a kid! I miss it so. Ahh, my first synthesizer. You could even abuse it for cooler distorted sounds, I remember holding down a switch or something to make it do something nasty. That noise loop took me back.
 

Guts of this is the 'well-known' Texas Intruments SN76477 - basically a small synth on a chip. Used in the Blacet Dark Star module and a ton of DIY circuits. It had an LFO, VCO, noise gen, Env, & VCA, plus weird digital mixing. It's a shame that there aren't similar chips around today for us noise-lovers to tinker with.
 

I want one!!

might some time attempt to build one if I can get that chip.
 

Man that brings back memories.

God I wish I still had it.

It was my first electronic anything and I used it to make sound effects for all my Star Wars figure battery chucking wars.
Domino forts didn't stand a chance against it.

My parents hated the thing.

I eventually trashed mine whilst trying to literally wire/rubber-cement it to a cheap radio I had in turn grafted to a tape deck - in a rather misguided attempt to manufacture the northern Caribbean's thinnest sounding multifunction three-speaker doom box.
 

I have one of these currently for sale on Ebay. The auction ends in a few days.
Feel free to have a look!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6064428584&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
 

funny, mine already has a 1/4" line out; no speakers. It's terribly underpowered though. requires amplification.
 

actually i may be mistaken about the speaker. perhaps it did have one, back before i stuck it in a different case. it did come with the line out though i believe.
 

Hello all -
As the original designer of the Sound FX machine...there was no "line out" provided. That 76477 chip used to be carried by Radio Shack which is where I first got it and started playing around with what it could do. It then evolved into the toy that you have, sold by Remco.
Best regards,
Ken
 

Just posted mine on eBay to get some extra cash. It was great while it lasted and I recorded some of its sounds for future use.
 

Geeky nostalgia. I had one of these when I was around 11 or 12 and I was thinking about it earlier. I had asked for it and, my mother bought it for me. I think it may have been for my 11th birthday, though technically we didn't "celebrate" birthdays. I loved it, even though it was somewhat limited in what it could do. It was also kind of cheesy, not just in how it sounded, but in the way it was made. I think it may have cost $16 at the time. After I got tired of using it in the normal manner, I would tune a radio to a blank area on the AM dial, sit the toy on the radio, and listen to the sound of it interfering with the radio. I discovered something weird in doing this. If you talked into the speaker of the device, the speaker would act like a microphone. You could hear your voice modulated with the sound of the machine THROUGH THE RADIO! Exciting! After I got bored with this, I inadvertently I broke the toy while experimenting with it again. I was so upset...
 

Hello All ~
I have one of these things,it's still in plastic, lol...Does anyone know how much I should sell it for? Or to who, where?!
Thanks!