Those of you who saw my previous post about the Beocord 1500 De Luxe that will play but not record - I have decided to abandon that project as it could be expensive to get it working, and it's an enormous, heavy machine anyway. I am however still determined to have a working B&O reel-to-reel, so I bought a Beocord 1200, knowing that the Beocord 1200/1600 was B&O's last reel-to-reel in production.  It's also more modern looking, more compact, and a lot lighter than the Beocord 1500 De Luxe, and can stand vertical, which I prefer.  It also looks good alongside my Beomaster 3000-2. It's in pretty good cosmetic condition but needs new belts.  It will likely need more repairs, but I'd at least like to fit belts and see if I can get it running to see how it performs.  I am not sure if mine is the earlier version with one flywheel belt of the later version with two, but I think it's the earlier one.  SN is 18417. I found some very old posts on the old forum, indicating that

Location: Liverpool

My B&O Icons:

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Old enough to have gazed at classic B&O HiFi in Plumbs shop windows in the 80s...