My wife's grandmother has tapes she made, she is dead now, but my wife wants me to make a CD based on them.

Windows' Sound Recorder only records 60 minutes of sound. I tried some Sourceforge projects, but the MP3 and WAV files they make are garbled. I have 128M of RAM and a 700Mhz Celeron is this fast enough to make good CD quality MP3 and WAV files? The tape plays normally on headphones. Sound Blaster AWE-64 ISA sound card is used, I cannot afford a better one.

I have a 200Mhz laptop put the battery went dead and won't recharge and the system won't even boot up. IBM Thinkpads, what can you do about them when they are out of warranty and you are out of cash?

My spare system was given to my brother who had problems with his second system, and then he gave it to my other brother.

My Windows 2000 Server has weak-*ss sound support.

The Pentium 200Mhz Linux box is beuing built, but Red Hat 8.0 gives me an "Unknown Monitor" error and does an abnormal termination during the install.

I have nothing else to use.

Remember I am out of work, not on disability yet, and I need something free that can do a whole song or tape, and split it into MP3 or WAV files that I can put on an Audio CDR disk.

I think the 200Mhz Pentium system is not Linux hardware friendly.

thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks I will give that a try as well.