beth

www.datavis.com just had its NH900s come in. Pre-order price was $239 and you can still get it at that price if you go to the product page and then click on "Get Latest Price".

One more question- is this something that I should use an external mic with? I know that with cassette recorders, an external mic helps a lot with tape hiss, it is the same with minidiscs?

Thanks for the advice, Kevin. I'll keep an eye out!

I need a way to record many, many hours of conversations in a variety of environments- mostly conversations happening in a group. I don't really care about music recording or playing, but I need a way to transfer the conversations to my PC (Win XP). With luck, I'll find a way to use something like Dragon Naturally Speaking to convert the sound files to text. Minidisc sounds good since I can carry around as many discs as I need; I'll be doing many hours of recording in one session. However, I'm confused about file transfers. I saw the article on "Portable Recorders with Uploading Facilities"- which said that there wasn't any way to upload files from minidiscs, but it seems in at least one of the threads here, that isn't the case. If minidisc isn't a good way to do this, can anyone suggest some other technology I should be looking at? I have about $400 that I can spend, but the less the better. I need portability and a recording time of at least 8 hours per session. Thanks for any suggestions. Beth