Those Fridens are heavy. The logistics of getting it across country must have been difficult. They were electo-mechanical monsters. I'm sure it will be fun. When I was in High School I was the photographer for the local weekly newspaper, the Columbia Press. While they had a Linotype (hot lead) the owners were experimenting with using the Fridens to set justified type, i.e., newspaper columns. First you would punch the type into the paper tape with no carriage returns. This would generate a long strip of tape full of holes. This could be edited with a razor blade, cut and tape, yes they make transparent tape with holes in it. You would then mount the tape in the reader. Set the line width and spacing by adjusting the machine. Switch it over to "Justify" and run the tape. With luck the Friden would generate a column of text, flush right and left. Usually it took a fair amount of setup and several trials before you were ready to print out the final text on a special coated paper. Of course the biggest disadvantage was these machines only came with one font. If you wanted type one point larger (say 9 Pt. instead of 8 Pt.) you had to get another expensive machine in the larger point face. They worked for justified boilerplate. The old machines the Columbia Press had were always breaking down. This was 1963. Cold type was in it's infancy. Most shops in Astoria were setting type on a Linograph or Intertype with hot lead. You then took a galley proof and pasted that up. Then the copy went to the process camera to have a negative made, so you could burn a printing plate. Now it is computer direct to printing plate. Process cameras are Dodos. As a printer I love it; as a photographer I am sad to see the passing. Fridens didn't last long, too expensive and too much down time. By the time I laws in collage they had gotten an AM CompSet Typesetter that was much easier to run, in large part because the CompSets were computerized. Thanks for all your help. Paxton PS I am interested in all process cameras that are being surpluses out, the larger the more interesting. Please email me at whoagiii(a)aol.com if you know of any surplus Process Cameras.