You see a small black box, meant to be hooked up to a VidPhone. It has some buttons on it, including:
answer/start - set the machine to start answering the phone
play - play the messages on the machine, from the
current point on the tape
rewind - rewind back one message at a time
fast forward - run through the entire message quickly to the end
stop - stop all actions, including answering the phone,
playing the tape, and it leaves erase mode
erase - enter erase mode. While in this mode, any text
played or fast forwarded through will be deleted.
[ERASE MODE!] shows in the name of it when you
see it in a room. Leave mode by pressing STOP.
The machine will ask for confirmation before
erasing actions
Use "press