Casio SK-5. Owned from ~June 1989 to ~March 2000, sold for $47.
This was the first keyboard instrument I owned. At first the sampling was really cool. There are preset beats (with those lovely digital drum sounds), 4 completely useless sounds with their own pads (lion roar, laser, high and low bongos), preset sounds (piano, vibraphone, flute, trumpet, pipe organ, surf, dog bark, etc.) which mostly sounded pretty good, demo songs (most of them were irritating but there's a nice rendition of Debussy's Clair de Lune). There's also a sequencer, realtime only with no editing and very poor control over looping. It's all fairly standard casio stuff, but there's a sampler too. It stores 4 short samples or 2 longer ones, 8 bits at some really low sample rate. Sounds can be reversed, looped, tuned, and preset envelopes (percussive envelopes, a "reversed" one, sustaining ones, two with a sort of tremolo) can be applied. It was pretty nice but after a while I didn't like it because I wanted to have something much more advanced that I could use more like a serious musical tool. I sold it shortly after I got a computer because I thought I didn't need it anymore. I thought that I had gotten a really good deal for my worthless piece of junk. I regret it now because I found out about circuit bending a little later. Oh well, it was pretty fun for all the years that I had it.
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This site has lots of information about all the SK-models: Casio SK-1 Sampling Keyboards
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