So last week I discovered that my old Sony MZ-NH900 Hi-MD recorder had taken it upon itself to suffer a total existence failure. It won't play, it won't load discs, ir won't even eject discs without a lot of wrangling with the door mechanism. It is an ex-Hi-MD recorder.
Now, I wouldn't actually care - I switched over to using a Rockboxed iRiver about a year ago, and am loving it - except that I have several years' worth of recordings that I now can't access. (This includes both live music recordings and some interviews I conducted for work.) Many of them I've transferred to computer, but not all.
Any ideas for my cheapest options for something that'll enable me to transfer this stuff? I just checked out the eBay options, and I'm not really thrilled at the idea of shelling out $100+ for a replacement recorder just to retrieve a few old recordings, but I'll do it if I need to.