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It is indeed a BBC Micro.. coupled with the UMI 4M sequencing system. they used this for many years(until Violator I believe). 

Alan didn't use the MC50.. and Never Live.. the Units you are thinking about were the Roland DM80 recording system which was an early tapeless HD recording system. They were planning to use these for the SOFAD tour to replace their ageing Tascam 38s, but after it crashed spectacularly and lost all the Tour Backing, DM sued Roland (successfully) and the DM80 was quickly discontinued. The Backing Tapes had to be quickly reproduced a couple of weeks before the tour starting..

The Christmas Island sequence was put together by Alan in the back of the tour bus which is why it was sequenced with the EII.. He also went on to do the first Recoil records in this way

From: clem fallon <clemfal@...>
To: emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2012, 10:52
Subject: Re: [emulatorII-list] Emulator II Sequencer Question

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First post.... Hi all

Looks like a BBC Micro ? �They were used a lot by Vince Clarke with early Erasure. Alan also used a Roland MC50 ? especially live. I believe he brought them to court once over loosing a complete shows worth of programming !

On 11 Aug 2012, at 08:33, James Ulibarri wrote:

Wow, Depeche Mode made their career off of that sequencer. �(They weren't using an external sequencer, were they?)

Oh ok. You got me. (not!)� They're running the whole set off an EII sequencer??� Come on, bud.�
You've been watching that Alan Wilder video too much where he is playing Christmas Island and the backing tracks are playing and he's playing over the top.� That's a pretty simple track and that is far from their whole career.�� They definately were not making records with the EII's sequencer I can tell you that.� I am sure they had Atari ST's or even earlier computers.� Can someone identify this computer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkXItiP_bz4