Nortel modem-terminals/display phones

Next time I'm at the location where they're stored, I can try to find you a number. They're RS-232, but they're a bit funky to get to work with anything else; I don't remember the details, but it seems like they used really odd settings - like 6 bits, mark parity, 2 stop bits. Also, the attached phone only works with Northern Telecom phone systems, unless you were to gut the whole thing and stick the electronics from a one piece phone in them. What I've decided to do for terminals around the house (including the kitchen and bathroom) is to buy some old 486 laptops with color displays and PCMCIA slots. I've got PCMCIA ethernet cards for them, and am shopping for PCMCIA sound cards. My plan is to run Linux or FreeBSD on them, and X-windows, and let them surf the web as well as accessing our answering machine (which runs on our file server, and is already web-enabled), Mister House control console, and the CD jukebox control software. I'm going to *try* to set up either a Real Audio server or some kind of multicast audio server, and have a sound card in the server sampling and digitizing the output of the CD jukebox and the computer-controlled FM radio tuner, so you can "tune in" from any workstation in the place and listen to the radio or CDs. (Hey - I've gotta have *something* to keep me out of trouble!) Bill Richman incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r (Home of the COSMAC Elf microcomputer simulator!)