If you are middle age, this is the best way to control your voice mail. The TAM is feature laden with excellent performance. You have 40 min. total record time and the voice quality is the best I have heard. The possibility of using 4 mailboxes is great if you want to route messages to different family members or use the same TAM for business and personal use. You do have only one password for remote retrival of messages, so expect all your messages to be heard by the entire family. The TAM is kind of quirky in the way it will only hold memory if the power goes off. Use a 9volt LITHIUM battery and be careful not to allow the power cord plug to detach. When you remove the power cord from the machine, you reset settings. This box originally sold for under a hundred bucks. Expect to pay 300.00 today if you want a nos unit.