So now I'm down to one Rick, from a once-upon-a-time high of five...but I've been playing the one I still have for 31 years, and I'll be playing it out for another 31, so hopefully that's enough to justify my continuing membership in the forum. I'm missing having a fretted 4001, but the guy I sold my '76 'Tobaccoburst' to said he would sell it back to me anytime...I'll see if he means it. Someday, I'm gonna have to have another Rick twelve...I'll be sniffing around here asking questions when that day comes.
It was tough parting with the 4080, but my infrastructure needed bolstering badly...my wife (who was never insistent on doing this and was in fact a little sad about it too) refers to this as my "Stabilization Grant", and it feels good to be "stabilized". I'm really happy that it's gone to a player, as it turns out.
I'm working on a 3D computer model of it to go with the one I did of my 4001, and I'm discovering some interesting things in the process...I'll display my findings here when I get the 4080 model done.
I had a few pictures taken for the archives before shipping it off...I'll post a couple in the 'You Playing Your Rick' thread, but here's one from the Going Away Party...and Here's Lookin' At You, Geddy.
to anyone contemplating buying one.
