The Archive · 1925

What Our Machines Can

Our Washington correspondent, think, was mistaken in severa points covered by his message which we published last Wednesday. For instance, he says that "the largest keyboard on any typesetting machine at the present time is the No. 12 Model of the Linograph Company and has 90 characters." We may machines in the "North-China Daily News" Office with keyboards having Jconsiderably more than 200 keys. Also the Model 24 Linotype with 155 key buttons on the keyboard has over 800 characters instantly availlable by means of a system of shift keys and levers similar to a typewriter. The experts at th

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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