I bought a used Pfaff Varimatic, manual, with IDT about eight years ago. I think it's from the same time frame as the one you are looking at. I adore this machine.........I use it for table runners that I stitch in the ditch, handbags topstitching and attaching binding. I use another machine with more bells and whistles for piecing, but for heavy stitching I use my Pfaff.