It's been a few years since I asked this question, but I might be in the market for a new small digital recorder and thought I'd ask again.
Does anyone make a digi recorder that has a tactile-feel on-pause off-pause button, like the old cassette recorders had: you flick a button up, pause is on, flick it down, pause is off. The reason I like this is, you can have the recorder at your side and not have to look at it to know whether you're in record mode or pause. With digital, you've really got to look to know for sure, and in certain situations, well, I, for one and for various reasons, don't want to look.
So ... that exist in any way, shape or form?
And, if not, like I've always said, somebody ought to step up to the plate and make one like that.