Dear Guest,

If only it were so simple! My Sony MZ-R909 does have a 'record' slidey thing on the front but it also has something called a 'jog-dial' on the side which, as far as I can ascertain, requires the operator to stand on his/her head whilst navigating some sort of 'decision-tree' (whatever that is!) which would put the Minotaur's maze at Knossos to shame! Needless to say I have rarely managed to record anything on it - except the odd occasion when there's been an 'R' in the month and I have got the permission of the session organiser to mount the 'decision-tree' on the wall so that I can consult it at regular intervals and 'phone-a-friend' when I get stuck.
And, to add insult to injury, the damn thing hasn't got a USB port on it so that I can transfer what recordings I do manage to make to CD! Perhaps later models are more 'user-friendly'(?)