What you will need is a MIDI to USB adapter, I suspect, for the PC.
My advice would be NOT to buy a very cheap imported one, but something from a known quality supplier.
The cheap ones usually work okay for basic stuff, but often throw up weird problems when asked to do more complex things.
They can introduce delays too.
Usually the sign that it's a good one is that it comes with driver firmware and doesn't use the Microsoft proprietary ones.
Watch out for operating system compatibility. You may need to download the latest drivers from the company's web site.
Closeness depends upon how far you like to run USB cables.
I'm something of an old timer too in this respect.
The first machine was an RCA 301, rebadged as an ICT1500, with an octal display operators console (no teletype keyboards here).
No disks, just 1 inch tape reels, we had 8 decks, 4 of which could be switched between the two machines we had.
(Or was it 6 with 2?)
Paper tape, 80 column punched card (in and out) and a line printer.
The machine had a MASSIVE 20 kilo-characters (6 bit) of memory.
This an ICT engineer sitting at the console doing maintenance. (The scope isn't part of the machine!)
I became quite adept with it, and learned to be able to program it from the console like the engineer is doing.
Worked on very early front end processors and all sorts.
After some years programming I moved into data comms writing transaction processing programs and dealing with transmission protocols.
Wrote some bits of protocol handling in mainframe operating systems.
Ended up, before retirement, writing courses for a major player in the satellite comms industry and rolled out courses for them around the world.
ISDN and early satellite broadband.
A somewhat varied career!
Now I mess with MIDI, which is a lot simpler than D channel ISDN signalling!
Regards,
John.