2 years ago I paid $1200 for a trashed 3000LE with OS3.11, floppy, VGA, broken note variation slider, missing buttons, bad tact switches and dead screen backlight but I fixed and modded all of it for another $350...
$40 for personalized Vailixi OS 3.5 chips
$48 for Artmix/Stratos Technology internal SCSI conversion kit
$110 for Kanamit_MPC blue LED screen
$25 for 57 new tact switches
$40 for new black buttons
$25 for 2 red record & overdub buttons
$65 for SCSI2SD card reader
$0 for blue LEDs, red thick pads, black aluminum data entry knob and new note variation slider (leftover parts from other MPCs)
The MPC3000 are now going for $2000+ and the LE are going for $3200+ on eBay.
It's ridiculous!
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