Abstract: A telephone terminal base for vertical mounting and with a front closure that is movable about a horizontal hinge axis to open and close the base. The hinge structure is formed by cooperable hinge parts on front and rear closures, the hinge parts slidable one upon the other along an arc of a circle centered upon the hinge axis. The hinge axis is positioned forwardly of the base and with the hinge parts spaced from the hinge axis, they are disposed entirely within the base. The front closure is preferably hinged to move downwardly from a vertical closed position.

Abstract: A central dictation system including a plurality of remote dictate stations, a plurality of record/reproduce stations and a plurality of transcribing stations operatively connected to respective ones of the record/reproduce stations. Any one of the remote dictate stations is capable of communicating with any one of the record/reproduce stations so as to execute a dictate and/or playback operation. When a record/reproduce station is communicating with a dictate station, the remaining dictate stations are prevented from gaining access to that communicating record/reproduce station. A transcribing operation can be performed substantially independent of the dictate and/or playback operation. Code recording apparatus is provided to automatically record a predetermined code signal at the conclusion of each dictated message. This recorded code signal prevents the recorded message from being reviewed or erased by the subsequent use of a remote dictate station.