MT100
Care to guess what this is? A primitive Time Machine? A Brain/Personality Transfer device? A Mind Control apparatus from the former Soviet Union?

Sorry, time's up... it's a multi-track tape recorder!

I had occasion to take this out of the box and use it again. I bought it back in 1989, and it still works, with the exception of one of the line-outs that you use for mix-down. It could probably be repaired fairly easily, but there's no good reason at the moment. I can listen to my old tapes just fine through headphones, and that's good enough. I had a multi-media project recently, and I did the narration. I recorded my voice on this machine, and then into the computer and that worked pretty well. Now it's sitting in the corner of my room, and I occasionally listen to old recordings, which actually go back to 1982. I bought this machine to replace a TEAC Portastudio, which I managed to wear out.

In case you don't know, this device allows you to record a track, i.e. a keyboard or guitar, and then go back and record another track, and so on. In this way you can become your own combo. I also have recordings of my friends playing along -- a wide variety of material. Much of it reeks, but some of it was surprisingly good. It's just another repository of my personal creative endeavors.