The Dell Inspiron 8500 notebook PC is equipped with a microphone input
but has no high-level line inputs to accept audio from a tape deck,
tuner, phonograph, etc. In the old days if one had a tape recorder
with only a microphone input, you could use dropping resistors
(usually 50K) to record from such sources. Will this trick work with
the Dell 8500? (Or will the microphone input also accept the
higher-level inputs as-is?)