Sorry for not being clear. The Zoom H1’s run about $125 new. A cassette recorder is $25 new despite all the additional material and logistics costs. I was s

Sorry for not being clear. The Zoom H1’s run about $125 new. A cassette recorder is $25 new despite all the additional material and logistics costs. I was surprised that there is nothing in that price range. I wound up buying a Tascam DR 05. It was about $125 at the time. eBay’d a year later. I just couldn’t commit to its interface abstractions and workflow. It lived in the space where the software was motivated toward making design and manufacture easier rather than the use pleasurable. If I have to menu dive every time I use it, why not just use my phone? Or tape since I can use a pen to name things…not scroll through 128 options one letter at a time. And to be clear, not using my phone (or laptop) is why I buy hardware.