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Related: About this forumThis is for all those who remember what a typewriter was
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=G4nX0Xrn-wo&sns=emHistoric NY
(37,457 posts)snot
(10,540 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)is not the correct way to hold one's mouth when playing a reed instrument. (Mother of a clarient and sax player.)
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Ednahilda
(195 posts)on a manual machine. The video brings back memories . . .
I can still type faster than anyone I know who learned on a computer, a testimony to the quality of the high school teacher who taught the class.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Everyone in the house touch types. A lot of times I don't even look at the screen. I just know where the keys are and type. I've taken a laptop into a public meeting and transcribed from the speech while watching the speaker. Yeah, there were some typos, but nothing that wasn't easy to correct. And I don't use twitter-speak.
CTyankee
(63,914 posts)you were supposed to be "touch typing."
Greybnk48
(10,178 posts)in High School because we only had 20 electric typewriters and I missed the cut. By the time I was switched to an electric mid-semester, I had muscle-bound pinkies!
As an aside: The fasted typist in my class was a girl who had one arm (the other arm was very small and deformed). She used to kick everyone's butt for speed and accuracy--very, very fast.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)was a one-quarter elective. But from day one, all the keyboards were blank. We looked straight ahead and up a bit at a huge keyboard chart and so learned touch typing. I've always said that was the most valuable course I ever took in my life---was a medical transcriptionist and secretary for a number of years, and got up to 100 wpm. It drives me nuts to see how kids type today...2 fingers and watching the keyboard.
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)When I train newbies on our platform at work I quite often slip up and call the enter key the "return" key.
The last typing test I took, my speed was 144 wpm. Computers have made me a lot less accurate than the days when I relied on white-out and razorblades for the carbon copies, but every once in a while I break out the computer game Typer Shark as a fun way to regain accuracy.
At home we had an old Underwood typewriter. My hat is off to anyone who could touch type on one of those things; those typists must have had fingers of steel!
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I don't know if they are still in existence any more. And this was years before electric typewriters. Boy, was I happy when personal computers were an everyday item. I did not have to use white out or corrective tape any more. And having to make carbon copies was a real bitch when you made an error.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I first heard this joke about 45 years ago. It sounds like it might have come from vaudeville.
First man meets a second man and asks:
First man: Why is your neck like a typewriter?
Second man: I don't know. Why is my neck like a typewriter?
First man: Because it's 'Underwood.'
Hahaha...
The first man moves on and the second man meets a third man. He wants to play the same joke on him:
Second man: Why is your neck like a typewriter?
Third man: I don't know. Why is my neck like a typewriter?
Second man: Because it's 'Remington.'
I don't know, but for some reason, this schtick always makes me smile!