Group: rec.arts.movies.production.sound
From: "Courtney Goodin"
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Rols Dictation Machine


wrote in message
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> Does anyone know where one might find a Rols Dictation Machine. They
> were made in West Germany - and distributed through Sawyer Inc. in
> Portland, Oregon.
>
> says:
>
> Manufacturer or Inventor Sawyers Inc.
> Model or Type None
> Recording technology employed Generic description: Magnetic sheet
> recorder. Records on a sheet of paper coated with a magnetizable
> layer.
> Comments Manufactured in West Germany and distributed by Sawyers of
> Portland, a motion picture projector firm. Used narrow strip of
> magnetically coated film (made by Kodak), which the user tore off the
> roll when finished dictating.
> Place where manufactured USA
> Date or Years Manufactured 1963
>
> I'm LOOKING to buy or rent one. No luck on Ebay, etc.

Try the Prop Houses in . They may have one kicking about. Don't know if
it will be in working condition.

/Props_Wardrobe/

Try each of the people listed on the above page.

---Courtney