I bought a vintage Yamaha TX81z[1] a while back (you can still find them for ok prices on ebay) to play with some classic FM synthesis and sounds (note the tiny

I bought a vintage Yamaha TX81z[1] a while back (you can still find them for ok prices on ebay) to play with some classic FM synthesis and sounds (note the tiny LCD front panel interface is painful to use, but you can use an external patch editor/librarian); I believe it came with a cassette of the original presets (and possibly other data like a demo song or something.) I haven't actually tried to use it (I expect you can just download the sysex data from somewhere and send it over MIDI) but the Yamaha approach seems similar to cassette storage interfaces of old microcomputers from the 1980s (or earlier.) Note a plugin like Dexed will give you 1980s-style FM (though DX7 6-operator/sine rather than TX81z 4-operator/various waveforms) for free, but the TX81z is a nice hardware synth that is also 8-voice multitimbral (!) [1] https://www.synthmania.com/tx81z.htm https://www.synthmania.com/tx81z.htm