Of course you'll get no argument from me, Timothy. Nothing in the
instructions for Sony portables with manual end searching warns a user to
put the hold switch on, press the END SEARCH button, open the write-protect,
or just remove any disc first when leaving the unit unattended. The last
two would not have helped when manual end searching ruined a track on my R3
because my finger slipped and pushed REC instead of EJECT (I'd been editing
the disc, so the write-protect had to be closed), and I doubt that the hold
switch would help when an R55 goes into poltergeist record mode.
Manual end searching came in with the MZ-R2. Its manual touted default
recording from the current point as a feature, for surely it is what people
will usually want to do (!); afterward it discussed pressing the END SEARCH
key in order to append instead of overwriting as an available function for
the rare occasions when one might want to do such an odd thing.
I was quite glad to see that the R900 not only has automatic end searching
selectable (yet not the factory default; admitting error is as hard for
engineers as for lawyers) but also has REC and EJECT well separated from one
another, operating in different directions on different faces of the unit.
In fact, EJECT is all by itself, so if you miss it you can't possibly press
or slide something else instead.
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