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Originally Posted by rabble

DAT(M) > DAT Deck > Digital Out > External Soundcard > USB 2.0/Firewire > Software > Hard Disk

that sounds about right. you can get an external soundcard that goes in thru the USB and you can pretty much sidestep the high prices they charge for laptop hardware. Something like this should work, I don't think this one has the right digital input interface but you'll get the idea:

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_u...eUSB-main.html

with a product like this you can plug it into your desktop or anywhere so you can do nice transfers on pretty much any computer.

also watch out, some of these firewire/USB kinda soundcards have trouble with older OSes or so I've heard.

I've got the EMU 0404 on one of my desktop comps, it's very cheap and gives a lot of bang for the buck:

http://www.emu.com/products/product....incategory=754

its got the optical digital in/out which is that little square kind and can connect easily to my DAT deck.

Did you decide on which software you're gonna use? There's a couple key settings that have to be made at that stage and its a little bit different for each prog.