Equipment

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You don't need anything like the equipment I've got here Jimmy if you 
just want to get good tape to pc transfers. Any decent cassette desk 
(assuming your tape is cassette of course) should do. It's surprising 
how good an old tape can sound on a crummy cassette deck after you've 
cleaned the heads & played around with the azimuth head alignment 
screw. A decent sound card capable of recording at 24 bit depth and 
96 KHz resolution is a must. Say an audiophile 2496, their cheap now. 
I use sound forge to record & mess with most of my audio. This will 
run on just about any spec pc these days. Just remember if recording 
at 2496 you will need 1.5G of hard drive space per side of a C90. So 
big drive comes in handy. That should do you really. 
Since you asked my front end recording hardware consists of a 
Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck, and an E-MU 1616m analogue to digital 
convertor. After this it goes downhill a bit. The pc I use is about 4 
years old not fast but with plenty of hard drive space, and the 
software as memtioned above is Sound Forge 9. 

Oh and you'll need time. Lots and Lots of time. 

Hope this helps.

Regards
Gary