> I gather the technological issue was a design that was over-complex for = > the degree of precision possible for production at that time. From the reading that I've done on the subject, it's more like the machine was over-complex in that it had too many moving parts. When the number of moving parts goes up, the reliability goes down. This is what did the machine "in" - as exhibited during the tests against the Linotype machine in a production environment. Tony V.