B&O BeoCord Belcanto

The Beocord Belcanto was a highly unusual design. Rather than simply being a portable recorder with a detachable lid, the mechanism and electronics were housed in a two-part cabinet that folded closed on specially designed hinges. The lower part contained the tape deck, the bias oscillator/erase generator, the level indicator and the mains switches where as the upper part contained the power supply, recording/playback amplifier, output stage and loudspeaker. Flexible cables hidden in the hinges interconnected the two units.