Looks like a 2-axis CNC machine with an air powered stylus, the whole works of it can move up and down a tall column with a hand crank. Plug it in, flip the power switch and the LCD lights up with some icons.
Technifor is still in business but if they have any info on this older machine it's either hidden or has been deleted from their website, no info there on any of their discontinued products.
Yup, yet another piece of equipment Google and friends tries to "help" the searcher with by altering the model searched for from CN101 (it's printed big and bold right on the front of the machine's plastic housing, so yes, that is the model) to some more recent or current Tecnhifor model. Especially "helpful" is Yahoo coming up with a link to a Word DOC file for a CN-112 Home PNA to Ethernet adaptor with the link text proclaiming it to be a manual for the Technifor CN101! Lying to me bold as brass, the @#@%s.