With the demise of magnetic tape recorders and the increase in capacity of computer drives, PC based recording and playout has become a reality, with all the hidden joys it can bring!
Various systems were employed, S.A.W and DAVE along with Fast Eddie and other software systems. The favoured one for a long time was Cool Edit Pro, which provided a good solution for a long time.
The downside to the early days of PC editing was the fact that you still had to dub from Mini-Disc/Uher etc. in real time.
Now with full digital recorder and flash based systems it's possible to download and edit very fast, and file compression utilties and increased bandwiths of Lan's and Wan's mean sending files to and from locations is now easy.

RADIOMAN
Playout &
Production
system

Many local radio stations have had the RadioMan playout system made by Jutel of Finland. Some stations have had a full "digital" refurbishment", others like Devon have had the playout system "bolted on" to the existing equipment.
A server is based in the apparatus room, and there are PC's in racks in the Apparatus rooms and studios. Normally stuff is played out from the server but if this goes down then programmes can be played out from the studio PC.
The computers in the Apps. room record and log programmes, and also generate the split idents for various transmitters.

Another piece of Glensound kit, very basic and simple but an ideal unit for small outside studios and OB's
Four Channels - each Mic.Line capabale, with headphone monitoring of Desk/Prefade? or a cue input, and a clean feed switchingmatric inside, plus a built in oscillator for line testing/ident.
There are still a few of these kicking about, and they are still very useful and robust little mixers.

The idea of this unit was to work at the end of Music and Control line combination in pre-ISDN times, so the ISDN COOBE is in many ways a development from here.