In any case, it looks like a basic 2 header, basic mechanical transport, probably single motor. Apart from its rarity, I can't see anything special about it at all.

John

Yes, that 4136 got away from me... was keen to add it to my small 4000-series set but I think I lost out to sniping at the end. I elected to exercise some self-restraint and not escalate the price again after already bidding more than I thought it was worth earlier on. 

John

This 4136 was for sale on eBay at least 3 times before with starting bid $1000 and two times ended "As no longer available". It was sellers mistake he/she didn't mention 4136 in the head of the listing - many thought it was for 4036.

Does anybody know how many of 4136 were produced?

Alex

Very interesting!  Have never heard about TCD210 before... Thanks

4136 was sold on eBay in States for US $860 lately

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tandberg-Power-Amplifier-/124511522541

Yes, that 4136 got away from me... was keen to add it to my small 4000-series set but I think I lost out to sniping at the end. I elected to exercise some self-restraint and not escalate the price again after already bidding more than I thought it was worth earlier on. 

That TCD210 is very interesting, shows they apparently were considering a very different idea for a direction to take with cassette design than the models we know today. To me it looks a little like a Tascam professional series machine... I onder if as Lasse suggests it was made by another company for Tandberg at a point where they were considering to produce machines for the studio/pro marketplace? If so interesting that it was much much later when the 910/911 were finally built for that space, and begs the question whether there were other efforts in-between that we don't know about.

John

I Think it might be something made FOR Tandberg BY another company (c) Lasse

In support of this version will add from myself about numbering: TCD 210 may intend it's a deck of a lower level than units of a 300 series

This model, TCD210, have been discussed in a Norwegian Tandberg Facebook-group. Sometimes the employees at Tandberg made their own equipment, perhaps this is one of those? Its also my believe that the current highest bidder is an ex-emplyoee from Tandberg. 

OK; the one in the fb-group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandbergradio/permalink/2628978687385345) is a bit different, so at least there exists two (slightly different) specimens, but it's still a very odd-looking machine.

VU meters doesn't look Tandberg's too?

Yes, it’s a strange thing. Don’t know what to believe.

I think this auction is very strange. There is only a single photo of the deck, and it's very unsharp/blurry. No photos of the back, no closeup. You can see the deck is missing a transport button. It has no resemblance to anything Tandberg ever made. Not a single design element where you would say, yes, that's a Tandberg. It's a very simple deck - simpler/more basic than TCD-300, but clearly newer. The numbering is strange, considering every Tandberg deck from TCD-300 and onwards had a higher number than the previous one (exceptions: 420, 3034 and 910/911) It has plastic piano keys, very un-Tandberg. And still the leading bid is now NOK 4.200,- / EUR 420,-

Cheers, Richard

This model, TCD210, have been discussed in a Norwegian Tandberg Facebook-group. Sometimes the employees at Tandberg made their own equipment, perhaps this is one of those? Its also my believe that the current highest bidder is an ex-emplyoee from Tandberg. 

Cheers, Richard