I may want to have a bash at making a recording of my wife's choir. I
realise it will not be remotely professional quality, but I hope I could do
better than a portable cassette deck!

I had in mind recording in two ways:
1. On my Sony Minidisc player
2. On my PC, creating a WAV file onto the hard disc, which I could later put
onto CD.

I have an old but decent (I think) pair of panasonic microphones which I
could experiment with. I assume I would stick them into my stereo amplifier
(circa 1975), and then feed the output into my Minidisc player and into the
sound card of the PC.

I know my home PC (Athlon 1400 processor) seems quite happy at making decent
WAV files, using Musicmatch software. I haven't tried yet with my work
laptop (Intel 900), and I don't know what software I would use on that.

Thanks for any (polite) suggestions, or any pointers to web sites that I
would find useful.

Steve