Well, my mother waited 9 months for me, so I'm sure that I can wait for a minidisc to play into a computer in real time. I fortunately have a Philips standalone CD recorder (10 years old)and a Sony MD deck, so I can copy the recording digitally direct to CDRW, then plonk it in my PC's CD tray and upload into Cool Edit Pro, or Adobe Audition for tracking.

Until I buy a Wav recorder, I now use my even older D7 DAT as a mic preamp to provide record level control on the fly. If I think of any other tricks I'll post them.