1966 Tone Bender "MK1.5" - 500k edition [DATA DUMP]

[The Captain]

It's quite possible that the "MK1.5" first came about in 1965, in some form or another (e.g. funky Impex builds)

1965 on the Level.

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1960?!!? on the Attack.

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[Philip]

[Nick]

It's quite possible that the "MK1.5" first came about in 1965, in some form or another (e.g. funky Impex builds)

1965 on the Level.


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1960?!!? on the Attack.


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Oooh, nice. Didn't know you had these intimate details of Joe's MK1.5. Curious that this unit has a 100k level pot (because the other funky early Impex example has a 250k). It was already tricky-enough putting Joe's into sequence because of how it's painted so I wonder, maybe, whether the funky early Impexbenders were built by someone else, alongside the OC75 units. One of many mysteries!

[Doc Holliday]

Do you think “if” those quirky impex ones were being built by say... a friend of the family or another family member that they also built all the mk1.5s and MK2’s with the impex transistors?
Maybe aunt carol was given a stash of impex to build some boards cos they couldn’t get any 75’s that day at the local Tv spares shop and once that stash ran out It served a purpose? Like it was just filling a gap until they used OC75’s again?
Are we also thinking that the boards were made up at different places but maybe housed say... at the shop ready for purchase?