Last week a good friend, Dennis, found a cassette tape sent by my wife Joan and I, just 42 years ago. It was an update on our time teaching in Papua New Guinea. We both talked about our work and adventures in PNG and about our kids. The kids had a few words to say also. I have been able to hear a few minutes of the tape on a scratchy old player. I decided to do a conversion from cassette tape to CD with help from our son Martin. The specific computer Martin has set up for this conversion suddenly decided that it should die. I managed to borrow an exact brand and model and transfer the hard drive to the borrowed machine. Martin will use a program named Audacity to clean up noise and transfer the data to CD. The borrowed computer and the dead one are both Windows machines of the same model IBM Lenovo. I was very lucky to borrow it from a friend who is an IT teacher at a large senior high school.
Had I not found the exact model there would have been a bit of work sourcing drivers for sound, video, mouse etc etc; as there are so many manufacturers of PCs which use different drivers. Apple, being the sole manufacturer of Apple computers have very few problems with drivers etc.
Tomorrow Martin will visit and will make about 6 CDs. Lets hope there is nothing too embarrassing on the tape.
I imagine that hearing my late wife Joan talking will be difficult.
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