Sales literature

Otari's data sheet for the one- and two-channel machines: two color pages covering the full-track MX-5050-FL and the half- and quarter-track 2S and 4S — the bulleted selling points, the marketing figures the maintenance manual never gives (input sensitivity, output level, frequency response), and the August 1976 suggested list prices: $1,450 for the FL and 2S, $1,420 for the 4S. The footer names and dates the sheet itself — S111, printed 8-76 — and the introduction points four- and eight-channel buyers to its siblings, sheets S-108 and S-110. “Specification Sheet” is Otari's own term: both tri-fold brochures below defer to this very document — “Full details are in the Specification Sheet” — which is why the pitch lives there and the data lives here, on two pages.

First of the three pieces of sales paper from the same eBay order, each a different document — the other two, a September 1975 tri-fold and its April 1978 re-set, are on this page as their own cards. 2-page scan, 3.5 MB (or the 1200 dpi original below).

The earliest factory sales paper on this site: Otari's orange six-panel tri-fold, printed September 1975 — the "Sensible Alternative" pitch, a tour of the front panel running unbroken across the centre fold, and a Performance Specifications page from the era when the line carried the four-channel QX alongside the two-channel machines (its S/N table quotes both, and the panel photo itself is a QX).

Tri-folds jam a document scanner, so this one went page-by-page on the flatbed at 600 dpi; the two joining pages are reassembled into one spread in the PDFs. 5-page assembly, 6.7 MB (or the full 600 dpi assembly below).

The April 1978 re-set of the same pitch — the familiar sections re-typeset, a Mounting Configurations page with ordering information (MX-5050-FL, -2SH, -2SL and the servo -2SHD), and quietly revised specification figures: the numbers moved between 1976 and 1978, and the differences are traced on the specs page.

Same flatbed story as its 1975 sibling: 600 dpi glass scans, joining pages reassembled — the cover page pairs the blue title panel with the introduction column, the same two-column design as S-111's own cover face. 5-page assembly, 5.4 MB (or the full 600 dpi assembly below).