My previous Tascam, the DP01, lasted nine years before the hard drive went bad

The biggest drawback to the 788 is lack of USB connectivity; you have to burn a disc thru a SCSI-attached external hard drive in order to export

a Tascam 2488NeoThe TASCAM DP-32SD 32-Track Digital Porta studio has much improved preamps over the Neo and No noisy hard drives

The storage method is superior to old hard drives

NO CD-R like on the Neo