77 Series Recorders

Australian Professional Audio Equipment

13 February 2021

Finally this site is back up after an attack which caused my host to pull the site, we now have an SSL.

19 June 2018

ROLA STEREOPHONIC SOUND SYSTEM, a new find, a Rola product not known to exist and only hints in some advertising material.

8 April 2018

AWA BAC-1 Restoration updates on the rebuild and extra pdfs to download covering circuit modifications and replacement PCBs

8 June 2016

AWA BAC-1 Restoration added and from this page or from the documents menu you can now download advertisement and manual pdfs for the BAC-1.

30 March 2013

Commonwealth Electronics WRN/2 Pickup page added and from this page or from the documents menu you can now download advertisement and specification pdfs for the WRN/2.

5 August 2012

Byer / Rola 100 Amplifer Schematic and Commonwealth Electronics 12B Manual can now be downloaded from their pages under the document download heading or from the Available Manuals page.

10 February 2012

Byer / Rola Mk II Series Brochure PDF document added to the 66, 77 Mk II, and document download pages.

28 January 2012

Commonwealth Electronics 12A & 16A Manual now can be downloaded, kindly provided by John Brownscombe.

6 June 2011

Optronics and Optronics 1000 Multitrack pages have been added.

5 June 2011

The Byer 55 page has been updated and expanded to include the Byer 55D Dictette.

12 February 2011

A search function has been added to this web site make it easier for you to find what you are looking for, Google is utilised for this function.

6 February 2011

Auxiliary Spooling Mechanism page added covering Byer/Rola Mk II and Mk III series Auxiliary Spooling Mechanisms and NAB adaptors.

20 October 2010

CEI Drum recorder page added covering the VMR (Variable Message Repeater). Both the CEI and Rola VMR pages have document links to the VMR Manual, VMR Schematics, and VMR Advertising brochure.

8 October 2010

Byer 100 page updated to include some pictures.

11 July 2010

Revision history menu selection has been added to the Documentation menu. The first drawing revision history to be added is the Rola 77 Mk III.

18 February 2010

Byer T-19 installation instuctions.
Byer Magnofilm operation manual.

5 January 2010

Additional information on Byer R-12-D and R-33 pages.

11 December 2009

Byer R-12-D added, including a PDF of the R-12 instruction sheet

15 November 2009

PDFs of the following manuals are available for download:

Byer "55"
CEB, CE 12D/3 Turntable
Cuemaster 77 Mk V, Cuemaster 77 Mk VG
Cuemaster 750 series cart, Cuemaster 900 series cart

Advertising material and brochures in PDFs can now be downloaded and are accessible from "Advertising / Brochures" in the "Documentation" menu.

12 November 2009

PDF of CEI manual for 77 Mk IVB available for download.

11 November 2009

NEWS page added, this will allow you to quickly check if new information has been added to my pages.

PDFs of Plessey manuals for 77 Mk IV and 700 / 700B tape machines available for download.

10 November 2009

PDFs of the Rola 33B Mk II instruction manual, Rola 77 Mk III Service and Maintenance manual, Plessey 77 Mk IV Service and Maintenance manuals are now available for download.

7 November 2009

PDFs of Trimax Type 1 power conditioner, Type 1 amplifier, Type 2 amplifier, Type 3 Amplifier (A54 & A54A), Type M6 amplifier, Type M12 amplifier, G4 volume indicator available for download.

PDFs of Transmission Products Type 1 power conditioner, Type 1 amplifier, Type 2 amplifier, Volume indicator, Programme fail alarm available for download.