
One of the first big studio recorders. This one was purchased new in 1973 by Don Cedarstrom of Custom Recording and Sound in Boise Idaho. Don, incidentally, did some of the early recording for Paul Revere and the Raiders in Boise in the 60s. I purchased the recorder from Don in 1997. It is a great deck but in the late 90s personal computers became powerful enough to start being considered as a recording platform, so I have only used this great old deck on a few projects.
I also show a owners manual and a first edition copy of Runstein's Modern Recording Techniques which features this recorder, among other, and is a great resource for professional recording, and was first printed in 1974. An interesting note about that edition of the book is that in the section covering noise reduction Runstein discuses what was then a new noise reduction technology, that is, digital recording. It is a great historical look at the foundational causes of why digital audio supplanted analogue.
To see and even older recorder check this out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jJ122PObscg