The Displaywriter system I have has the keyboard, a monitor, a monitor base-unit, and a box that would sit besite the monitor, etc. It houses dual 8" diskette drives and the rest of the electronics. The cable that runs from this box to the monitor, etc. is permanently attached to the box explaining why you see only a connector. The printer plus form-feed attachment have a footprint that matches the rest of the system, but is even higher than the rest of the system. Early, unobtrusive office automation at it's best. In keeping with the 3 states of computing (hardware, software, eveyware), early IBM word processing technology elegantly passed through the first 2 states. In 1964 IBM coined the term word processing when it released the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter followed the the Magnetic Card Selectric Typewriter and finally the Displaywriter product. This was the hardware state since these products were huge, dedicated pieces of hardware. Then IBM came out with the Displaywrite software series. The hardware melted into software and the technology entered the second state. Now word processing technology is everyware - fax, email, order entry, customer service...; it dissolved from software into everyware. There. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Kevin Stumpf * Unusual systems * www.unusual.on.ca +1.519.744.2900 * EST/EDT GMT - 5 Collector - Commercial Mainframes & Minicomputers from the 50s, 60s, & 70s and control panels and consoles. Author & Publisher - A Guide to Collecting Computers & Computer Collectibles * ISBN 0-9684244-0-6 .