This is the insides of a Roland VS-840. Before laptops this used to be my primary recording deck. In many ways it has features that the industry won't let you have for under a grand. This unit's main fatal flaw is zip disks. I talked myself into thinking it was okay at the time, but a mountain of disks later. Zip disks also break and get dusty. I have been using this deck since I refurbished it, since I gave it a sip of ginger ale. I use lap tops and stuff but I'm from the days of real faders and knobs.