Who still has a Portastudio? I have in the attic a Portastudio 144, Akai GX4000 reel to reel recorder and an MTR 6-4-2 mixer, probably the signs of a miss spent past.
I sold my MTR 6-4-2 about 5 years ago, but still have my GX4000 - had huge fun with that but it's a bit wobbly these days. I still have the Yamaha MT44 4 track cassette deck but sadly it has something wrong with it - can't remember what!
But have actually used Audacity for all recording for very many years now.
I don't think for routing anything has ever beaten the oddball MTR 6-4-2 for four track recording (even though I had the early version with no "track monitor" level controls). But I suspect most people in that budget range couldn't quite see how to take advantage of it. And it was big and heavy (I now have a "12 input" Behringer that's a fraction of the size and weight). Oh, and I had to do some major redesign of the power supply - particularly replacing the frame transformer with a toroid - to stop it humming...
