I have great memories of that time, when home recording was becoming possible thanks to these little devices. I never used one, though, as I already used to bounce stereo tracks from my Dolby C equipped Aiwa cassette deck (ADF350 if memory serves) to a friend's Akai tape reel recorder. That allowed us to obtain a less hissy sound (multitrack cassette recorders frankly sucked) while also maintaining decent dynamics. Then a few years later I spent most of my earnings from working in the military to buy the Fostex A80 8 track recorder plus the 450 mixer and some outboard rack effects, which I also used to record some rock band demos aside my own tracks. I have some good memories from that era, like when I had to sleep on the floor in a abandoned house in a high crime area that band used as rehearsal room because a recording took longer than planned, so we would continue the following day, and it was granted that if I left my gear alone it would be gone by the next morning. Good times!