No, you are quite coherent :)
Posted By: CrankyBeach on 2009-06-02
In Reply to: Looking for good microcassette desktop player - Sandi
And I sympathize with your plight, but I really don't have a lot of advice to offer... The last few years I was working with tapes, I went through the $200 machines they sell at Staples and Office Depot pretty quickly. One morning I was on the doorstep at Staples when they opened at 7 because my machine had just died and I had work to be done before 9 a.m.
I only got my last hold-out doctor off tapes when my last functioning tape machine died and I simply refused to buy another. By that time, I was using a hand-held recorder to play the tapes into the computer microphone, and then transcribing the resulting sound file. Actually, the desktop machine still works, sort of... but the sound quality is SO bad, you can't hear a thing.
So is there any chance you can make do for a while with one of the cheapies from the local office superstore (assuming you have one) and put some pressure on your client(s) to switch over to digital? You might preach to them the joys of no more broken tapes (if I had a dollar for every time I've repaired a broken tape, I could have retired 10 years ago) and the fact that most of the digital machine will actually "yell" at you if the battery runs down, so no more dictating an entire day's patients into a non-operating tape machine, either....
Anyway... good luck with the project. Let us know what happens. :)
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