First of all I would like to thank everyone who offered to help rescue the BBN TC2000 from Rhode Island. As it turned out (read below) the scheduling of this became a mess and I ended up going alone, but that wasn't because no one offered... I left early in the morning of 6/10 in my wife's '97 Tahoe (w/120k miles) to begin my 900 mile trek to my brother's home in Westford MA. I've made the trip a number of times and when I am driving it by myself, I drive it straight through with a couple of stops for fuel, food, restroom, etc. The drive consists of getting onto I90 and heading east until just before it drops into the Atlantic. All was going well until I had just crossed into Massachusetts and was accelerating out of the turn pike toll booth when there was a "clunk" and the engine reved higher than usual before shifting gears (automatic). Needless to say this got my attention! I took the next exit and pulled off to see if I could determine what had gone wrong. I checked the transmission fluid and it was full and didn't seem to be burned, so I called my brother and gave him the news and decided to continue on. When accelerating, the shift point was still high and there seemed to be problems when going into 4th, so I put it into 3rd and kept it under 65mph. Nervous, I kept track of mile markers so that if it gave out entirely, I could let someone know where I was. Fortunately the trip to my brothers was successful -- woo! Once in my brother's driveway, I determined that in addition to whatever else was broken in the transmission, reverse was now dead as well. Being late on a Friday, no shops were open and being MA, no transmission shops were open on Saturday either. I had scheduled to pick up the TC2000 at 11a on Saturday morning and it was a two hour drive, so it seemed that the only option was to rent a truck for the pickup. As single day rentals of cargo van (a full size van, not a mini-van or moving truck) seemed too expensive from places like U-Haul, checking Enterprise showed that there was a van locally and it would only be around $70 for the day. I signed up online and waited for them to open at 9a Saturday morning. My brother went with me to pick up the van and we were surprised to find that there was in fact a van in the Enterprise parking lot! We were a few minutes early and waited for someone to show up. When they did, we indicated that we were there to pick up the van which we had reserved the night before and that we were impressed that there was in fact a van in the lot. The person told us that they were very sorry, but that one was already reserved and had been for a week and that "they" shouldn't allow reservations of van's online. So much for picking up the TC2000 on that Saturday. I called the guy who was to meet me and he was very accommodating and said to just let him know when I could reschedule. So I perused the yellow pages and decided that I would call AAMCO Monday morning and get them started on fixing the transmission. My original plan had been to pick up the TC2000 on Saturday, go to work at my companies nearby office (I mostly telecommute anyway, so I can work at home or any one of the offices around the country with equal ease), give a presentation to some of the locals on Monday, and return home on Tuesday. This was obviously going to change. After talking to the AAMCO guy bright and early when they opened, I arranged to have them tow the truck in and I went to work. They called me about mid day with the initial estimate and asked if they should proceed with a rebuild, etc. I said yes and asked how many days it would take. The guy indicated that they average about 3.5 days. My week progressed and on Tuesday I talked to the AAMCO guy again to see how it was going. He now had a firm finish time of either the end of Wednesday or by noon Thursday at the latest, so I began rescheduling my pickup in RI of the TC2000 machine. I figured that I would just pick up the truck at noon on Thursday, drive down to RI and pick up the machine, then spend one more night and head home on Friday morning. I talked to the guy I would be meeting and made the arrangements. For some reason I didn't bother to call AAMCO on Wednesday figuring that they would call me if there was a problem. Wednesday came and went and I called AAMCO on Thursday morning to verify pickup at noon. They told me that the technician had mistakenly done some work on another fellow's transmission Wednesday and that mine would now not be ready as planned. I would have to wait until Friday morning. Grr! So I called the fellow in RI again and told him the news. He was very understanding and we arranged to meet at 11a on Friday morning. My brother took me over to the AAMCO shop Friday morning at 8:30a, I paid the large bill, and took my truck, hoping that it was really all fixed and would make the rest of the trip ok. My brother followed me for a way as it was in the direction he was going to his work place and I continued on to RI, arriving at 11a almost exactly. I met the guy and loaded up the machines, packed in a bunch of software (on various tape formats), some documentation, etc. The truck was packed to the gills and as I had been going on measurements as to if it would all fit prior to seeing the actual machine, I was very lucky. I had to remove a piece of trim at the rear ceiling of the truck to squeeze the machine in! Here is the beginning of my web page to document the TC2000... http://www.ubanproductions.com/tc2000.html Again, thanks to my brother for his help, shuttling me around, housing me, etc. and to the people who offered to help rescue the machine. Also a big thanks to the fellow who allowed me to rescue the machine and to my wife and son who I missed for a few unexpected extra days. --tom