On Fri, 23 May 2003, Dan Veeneman wrote: I just sent him an e-mail (through e-Bay) saying: "Does this differ in any way from a current production TDD? (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf, low speed Baudot TTYs used in place of voice)" Will he acknowledge a mistake?

10 bux? Aggguh! I own two of those IVs and one recent 4425, black keys were older versions, the newer ones were white keys plus any extras added as option and are currently in production. I must use them to communicate to others via relay or to another person w/ tty. In same era, Ultratec produced really good design & functicality in TDD compact. It's an 2 line backlighted LCD matrix w/ few features including clock (!!), opens up like a tiny notebook, surprising good keyboard for an cliclet keys. Runs on 4 AA for long time and extra cell for back up/clock. The main failing was the orange ribbon cable that connects both halves splits from opening/closing flexings. Must send it to Ultratec. They won't sell parts. I and other deaf friends moaned that nobody had designed newer TTYs that has good mono crisp LCD (I wish TFT), and do much more and lasts 1 week on battery with features like the PCT (personal communciator telephone) by french manufacturer years ago, now no longer produced. Runs on V40 CPU, 9" mono on a clicklet sh!t of piece keyboard! :-) But damned it does stores so many auto-answer callers' messages and store list of phone numbers for "speed" dialing. Superprint 4425, Pro80 and like does this similarily but uses power hungry VLD displays and very expensive, rechargeable battery (uses six AA rechargeable cells) that doesn't last long than 1 year before giving up ghost. etc, a charge runs about 15min if no main power available. :-P Cheers, Wizard (Deaf guy). PS: Pro80 prints on regular fax paper roll so that's almost an portable tty. 4425 for example uses narrow roll of thermal paper. PSS: Yes I did repair all of those models listed.