Here is an email from a German friend who is helping me buy the HDM - hard drive device- in Germany:

Dear Larry,

I would have ordered the item already, but it isnt as easy. At least I talked to Ivan Kanjo, who remembered you, and in a few phone calls with him I could clear some questions regarding the HDM and ordering it. He is the rigth guy to buy from, I would say. The situation is as follows:

- the "old" HDM-System, in which you were interested, is hard to get from him as well. - he said, he knows Sergiy Gulshani, but the price of 195 Euros is without taxes, customs and shipping if you would buy directly in Ukraine, which we canot do.
- he told me, he is right now not able to deliver the HDM System you wanted, maybe in a few weeks. But he strongly recommends the updated, advanced system, which will do the same job but ways better. They are producing a new system, which has no HDM, no mechanical parts, is ways smaller, it is a memory card, which costs 299 Euros, and you can plug in any regular card up to 1000 MB, which you could buy in addition by yourself then.
- he said, since I´m travelling to Chicago on April 16,2003, it wouldnt be a problem to deliver that new system by that time. I would pay for that in advance, at the time they deliver it to my home. So no money can be lost.

But here´s what I suggest: Please call him any time next week (he will have all the details of this new product by then), he speaks english, and explain to him what you want. I dont know about the differences of the old and new system. He then will get in contact with me, he said, and tell me when that part could be delivered to me after your order. This way you really get what you want. For 299 Euros, plus maybe some more for shipping it to my home. He assurde me that new system would be suitable for your Yamaha PSR2000, but make sure you discuss that point with him.

His phone nr. is 01149-841-481487 or 01149-179-4830968 (from USA).

Please tell me next week which one you could order, I can organise the rest.
Best regards

Christian

I find it encouraging that this person is willing to receive payment upon delivery, even though $300 is expensive. Nevertheless, it would be great to have a memory card that you could take in and out. This means you could update your files without having to take the keyboard out of the case.

What do you think?

Beakybird