You have to be a collector in order to appreciate a machine like that Sony. Clearly, it was used for editing, as witnessed by the splicing block. Hard to do? How do you think the recording engineers survived before the editing software? :) We need to learn to appreciate the labor of those before us. Millions of albums that we listen to today were created with a razor blade and splicing tape. It is, actually, not too hard, you can watch some videos.
As the forum's name indicates, it is for the dinosaurs, who still play tapes and listen through tubes. :) Solid State Memory? What's that? :)
