PART II.
Pointers About Typewriting
THE MACHINE.
It will be impossible in the following pointers to deal fully with the mechanism of the various makes of typewriters. This information can best be obtained from publications on the subject issued by the typewriter companies. Neither is it our intention to enter into a disquisition as to the advantage of one make over another. We have no particular preference; there are many machines of standard make and all of them good. Some have points of advantage that appeal to one class of operators and others have points that appeal with equal force to another class. Fortunately for all of us, tastes differ; but in the case of typewriter selection it is not only a question of taste, but of fulfilling certain requirements. Some operators prefer single-case keyboard machines, others prefer double case; some prefer two, or double shift machines, others again prefer a keyboard that differs from the so-called "universal." And so it is all a matter of choice and
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