Jeff,
The AEP version is the latest 1.3.3 -which I flashed onto the conduit. As for the Node-RED it is version 0.11.1 and the Node-js is v0.10.40 (like you said).
I managed to connect to the conduit through the debug console port and am communicating through TeraTerm.
Thanks for your help so far,
Youssuf