Hello Ernest! Well... I'm just a bit excited here, because I've been looking for one of these for LONG time -- and just the fact that a fellow enthusiast has one is good news to me! ;-) Anyhow -- I'm so gaga over this little machine because it was my first. Yep. Starting around 1979, almost every weekend, I used one of these marvels - when my father would bring it home from work (I'd look forward to Friday's so much -- waiting for the terminal to show up (oh yes, and my father of course ;-) and if there was no terminal for me when dad rolled in at 5pm, well, it was a long 7 days until the following Friday -- sigh.) I used to go through rolls and rolls of thermal paper - I would guess an average of 6-10 rolls from Friday evening when I started pounding on the keys until Sunday night when I had to give it up (actually, I usually sneaked in some more time Monday morning, real early before school.) I would dial up to a local TIP and then connect to machines back at MIT (in the days of I.T.S. and their "tourist" accounts.) I had logins at MIT-AI, DM, MC, and ML. Dialogs would ensue, real time chatting (connect with ^_c I think? I know I had the hardest time figuring out how to produce a control-underscore for some reason), mailing list reading (what were they call again? HUMAN-NETS and SF-LOVERS I believe (?)) This was all real novel for me at the time: I don't want to date myself here (why not Eric? ...) but to a grade school kid - I was doing some unique stuff compared to my peers. I developed quite a group of fellow "tourist" friends, and some MIT student friends -- although the notion of having tourists was not all that popular with some administrators at the LCS. I even visited the lab at MIT a couple times (relatives live in Boston area) and recd the full tour of "545 Tech Square, the 9th floor" (I know - big wow - but for me, at the time, having _never_ used a CRT terminal, it was a chance to experience things such as emacs without having to work your way around it using a thermal paper printout (ugh). I ramble - back to the Teleterm: I don't know what the connectors on the back are - IIRC - I never had to use them. I just jammed the phone headset as hard as I could into the acoustic coupler and kept the ambient noise down. Those inverted-toilet-bowl-plunger designs (er, I mean acoustic-coupler) frustrated me on many occasions. And I have to ask: Any more of these machines available? I've had no luck in finding these at all! :( Finally - I had thought the unit was actually called "Miniterm" as opposed to "Teleterm" -- but since you actually have the unit ... I do have a picture of the Miniterm I had used -- see it at http://home.san.rr.com/instep/miniterm.jpg (BTW - This is my first post to this list - I have been a silent reader for quite some time - and have the usual first-time-poster-jitters. I also want to thank Marvin(a)rain.org for pointing this list out to me!) Eric