I appreciate the continued input from all of you.

Yes, I was planning on just planting the people by the computer and letting them talk, but this "contraption" discomfits some of them. I'm starting to think a recorder might be best, then transfer.

I've been researching "archival" CDRs the past couple days, and that's been an eye-opener. Now I need to do a crash course on format and decide on what I can store and compress, etc., and then decide on a recorder or not, microphone, and all that.

This computer has standard soundcard stuff, nothing special, but then it shouldn't take much to do what I described. I just need to get up to speed on the sound capabilities of the computer. Shouldn't need to upgrade to do simple voice recordings.

Again, thanks for everyone's input.