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Study Your Situation Thoroughly before Buying Electric Typewriters

Journalism schools and departments which have not yet electrified their newswriting laboratories might welcome some pointers from a department newly converted. Now in only its second year of using electric typewriters, Texas A & M has learned several lessons worth sharing. We had studied the new newsroom technology and wanted to better prepare students for what is expected of them in the field. The summer of 1974 seemed the right time to start making the move. Department enrollment had been booming at an average annual rate of 28 per cent, and Texas A & M was among the fastest growing universities in the country. Funds as well as students were pouring in. Department facilities were splitting at the seams. The one reporting laboratory was roomy but could not accommodate an anticipated 18 laboratory sections requiring more than 50 classroom hours a week. Maintenance costs on an assortment of manual typewriters, some predating World War 11, were high and getting higher. The annual bills for some machines already exceeded their worth. A local supplier predicted that manufacturers would soon stop making standard manuals because of lack of demand. Electric portables apparently had overtaken the market. On top of this, we planned to require intermediate and advanced students to work with the Buttalion, the campus newspaper, for academic credit. And the Battalion was installing its first computerized optical character recognition (OCR) scanner system with visual display terminals (VDT’s) for proofreading, pro-