Nice !! Do you just get incredibly lucky or are you going to the flea market from dawn ??
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I go almost every week, mostly on saturday and/or sunday morning between 7 and 9. going earlier leads to diminishing returns because not all sellers start as early. one of my hot spots is less a leamarket than a garbage sale from house clearings… i think of it as “pindleskin from d2” if you remember those days, can drop everything but usualy it is trash…
things come and go in waves… there is (almost) always something that peeks my interest. and yes, i feel lucky. so far all the electronic devices i bilndly spent money on were repairable or worked right out of the mud 
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The seller opened netiaitions at 150 credits and would have delivered it to my door.
but I did not buy it.
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Some of these organs have a few interesting sounds as well as a spring reverb. What are these “credits” though?
Euro credits, i left it out becuasses USD is (currently) almost on paar. In a few years “value change” will probably skew the actual monetary value of the price called even further… ~if that makes sense~
I have checked the organ i saw on google since posting here. they go for about 50+ (euro) credits plus delivery, some in better condition…
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Gosh, where is this flea market?!? I’m guessing somewhere in the EU. Looking for someone similar here in the US, in the Washington DC area but not having a lot of luck.
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Count yourself lucky. I got a row off the council when I used their Transport for Disabled allowance to go skip diving on the way home from a hospital visit.
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Thrifting EU… could be a title from LGR
hard to decide where to focus on your next trip to the EU… Neuschwanstein 
, the eiffel tower, eternal Rome… a sub standart fleamarket in Hamburg…
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The biggest fleamarket has to be Amsterdam on King’s Day. The whole city centre turns into a makeshift fleamarket.
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LOL! I’ve never been to Europe, but I was joking with my wife about moving to Amsterdam for the synth community. I’d just have to learn Dutch and find a job there. And then get rid of all my stuff and move there.
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@Willi359 nice finds. Did you ever find out what the phonethingy did?
I even found a handbook. it is a tool to measure impulses in the phoneline (timing, amplitude, ???). i’ll link it once i’ve found it again on my harddrive
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LINK (german)
it roughly says:
Siemens FUGEB => Siemens functionality test device for payment(-pulses)
how to operate (abrigded approximation):
- conntect to mains power 220V 50Hz
- connect phone cables to “Amt” (~uplink) on the device
- set switch S1 to “Amt” and S2 to “belegt” (~in use)
- set S2 to correct resistance (200r or 600r) depending on the line that is measured
- initiate a call with the dail
- the device should then be measuring (showing?) the incomming payment pulses and a 16Khz signal it receives (from the other end?, the excange?)
- hang up and shut down
There is a second setup described to measure something different or the the same on a different configuration… My telco vocabulary is severly limited but i think you get the idea…
(edit:typos)
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Excellent, thanks.
As far as I know the pulses were used to send numeric data, such as 1 = 1 pulse, 2 = 2 pulses, etc, with a zero sent as 10 pulses. This was prior to the modern dual tone multiple frequency system used to transmit numeric data .
Im guessing 11 and 12 were unique to the German telephone system, perhaps for use only by engineers.
My father was a telephone engineer here in Scotland, so I have a bit of knowledge about telephony. Im sure Siemens and Ericsson (?Swedish) made a lot of parts for our system in the UK.
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Radiometer Copenhagen BKF10
You know the story… My favorite (trash) flea market, 50 credits (euro).
It is atleast turning on an the needles are moving, well see about the rest. I could find operation and service manuals on the net.
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$8 at the thrift store. I’ll find something interesting to do with it, he said, hope springing eternal.
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Yamaha Porta Sound PC100
25 credits (euro) on a flea market. fully working, with song cards and case. i could not resist…
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Seems like like there will be a second non obsolete museum very soon in Europe.
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Track down an old card writer and code up your own magnetic melodies. I have one too in my pile and it was finding one with case and cards that created the project. It’s more fun that way round.
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could you give more details on “card writer” my preliminary research about the play cards only brought up a video from 8-bit keys (yt). i was thinking about messing with the card system. i have a califone cardmaster (G) and cards that might be physically compatible. but then need to know the data format and a way to generate it
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