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... that was probably made in the early 'fifties.
The lid folded down and it had a handle like a suitcase.
It weighed about forty pounds, as I recall, and didn't have a single transistor in it. It had a green glowing "magic eye" tube to set the recording level with.
We used to amuse ourselves playing our voices in fast or slow motion.
I remember getting a nasty shock from it while poking around inside it looking for a bad tube while it was powered on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube
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