Tandberg were quite "high end" and expensive on the domestic market in the mid sixties. You could get better value, and more tape "mileage" it terms of a 4 track home grown machine for a lot less cash. My friend's dad had a brand new Radiogram, in the new Scandanavian style, that he let us use to play our Beatle records etc. It came from a rather posh Hi Fi Dealer who had fitted it with a matching Tandberg recorder. It was foreign and exotic by comparison but I was never wild about the joystick mechanism. The professional recorders [that I couldn't have afforded either] didn't have joysticks
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It was just a cost issue though really as the sound quality of those decks was generally very good. A nice find!
Dave W