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More importantly, what part of the bus driver should one never touch?
The site just crashed on me.
I remember in grad school that in order to have the best looking papers, we’d only hire typists who had an IBM Selectric.
Biff: I often look all around while typing, like Stevie Wonder on a keyboard. I wonder if my comments would be more interesting if I actually paid more attention to what I type.
You can type messages to the OT on the DL. Good skill. 🙂
Thanks for the compliment, Biff.
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We used to type over and over to practice:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
With the old typewriters, you actually had to hit keys and the pressure with which you hit the keys had to be pretty even so you wouldn’t have some letters super dark and some light, so that sentence allowed you to practice finding the keys and typing with equal pressure despite where it was on the keyboard. Now of course it doesn’t matter.
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I learned to actually type in college, typing papers all the time, and arguing with people on Usenet.
ha yea, basically learned to type chatting with people in IRC and posting on prodigy message boards. of course i never learned to capitalize words either, but it never affected school assisgments.
*rob*
i never took a typing class. those were considered special ed classes in my high school.
*rob*
I took a class in high school but never learned properly. I can type pretty fast using “hunt and peck.”
I took a typing class for a half semester in high school, I never took it seriously. I would type obscene messages repeatedly when there was no paper so that the messages would become engraved in the cylinder.
I learned to actually type in college, typing papers all the time, and arguing with people on Usenet.