Thank you Adam-and-Nick for sharing your experiences while useing DecTalk U S B. While I am running FC6, I get to "enjoy" many of these anoyances--and more. Ok, here we go. When the machine boots up, even though my rate is supposed to be set on 7 and a pitch of 141, the unit comes up with a rate of 4 and an 81 pitch. Once I change a value, it will suddenly remember my prefferences. Like Adam says, there are many cases where pitch-and-rate get knocked down, I think especially when capitol letters are involved. Same thing, move both values--and then its fine for maybe a couple of minutes. After first booting-and before the first accidental pitch change, the unit has more anoying abbreviations, such as a capitol e in e-mail wil say East mail. At first the unit will not read periods or dashes, but once one of these sudden changes happens, then I will hear some more punctuation. I have alot of entries in my characters file. And yes, still lately, even with new colonels, if I interrupt scrolling, near the bottom of the screen, I hear, "rtc lost some interrupts 1024HZ. Also, something maybe with its buffer, because if you arrow quickly, you more than likely will hear the previous line a second time, instead of the current line. This can be quite missleading if you are examining a list or in an editor. Thanks for listening Hart