Slight thread drift here, but germaine, and may be of interest to Audio anoraks.
Before I left the Beeb, as a light hearted excersise a young friend and I had a competition using a recording of a piece of prose (about 10minutes long) recited by someone with a stutter. Our task was to make the best of it. He chose Sadie (digital editor) I had the tape machine. Who won? I did! by about 2 minutes. He did the physical/digital edits quicker, but, he had to Upload/Download the audio in real time, whereas, I just put the tape on a machine, started at the beginning, and when I got to the end I'd done. One drawback, lots of cuts to my hands with the razor blade!