That's a puzzle to mw, perhaps because I don't know much about the keyboards on those machines. I can touch type pretty well on anything with a fairly standard typewriter keyboard. Some skills, like typing, morse code, shorthand (which I don't know) and probably golf become lifetime occupations.
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Date: 11/29/22 4:38 PM (GMT-08:00)
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Typing Instruction
1955, but I was not the only one.
A friend who was an old Western Union operator could touch type pretty
fast on the 2B printer or the perforator-only machine. But for a
regular typewriter he did hunt-and-peck. Western Union preferred the
celluloid key tops over the green spring cushion kind. It's my opinion
that one can probably type faster that way when your fingers don't have
to travel the extra distance.
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