Here's an oddball.

My grandfather passed away a year ago, but his voice still graces my grandmother's answering machine. It's a bit creepy to me, but everybody else seems to like it. The problem is that the answering machine is probably 30 years old (my grandfather used to sell and service them, back in the days when an answering machine was an expensive piece of business equipment). The cassette tape is warbly and may soon give out and die. I tossed out the suggestion of getting my grandmother a new machine and putting the old message on it and all parties concerned seem to think this is a fine idea.

Technical challenges:

What's the right way to do the transfer? Most modern digital answering machines have only one way of getting content into them, via microphone. Part of me says that I want to first try to suck the tape into my computer and maybe I can do some cleanup on the signal, although it doesn't need to be particularly stellar. Then, what, play it on a stereo and hold up the answering machine?