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Thanks for your welcome Mika. It wasn't a home device. The TTY-43 was a teletype dumb terminal with an integrated 300-baud modem. (I'm laughing with you!). There was no generally available email obviously, in the sense we have it today. USC-ECL was a node of the Arpanet, where email originated (I think that was a few years before me, like in 1974). It was available only for military and a couple of universities. But essentially it worked just like email of today. Virtually no one had seen it before, so when I dragged in this 30+ pounder, people's jaws dropped. Aloha, Jeff