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Post by roly on Jun 26, 2021 4:31:07 GMT -5
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Post by roly on Jun 26, 2021 4:47:16 GMT -5
In 68, I failed grade 9 typing.....I turned down a summer school opportunity to get the credit because I figured...I will never need this skill.....silly me.
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Post by gato on Jun 26, 2021 5:19:20 GMT -5
In 68, I failed grade 9 typing.....I turned down a summer school opportunity to get the credit because I figured...I will never need this skill.....silly me. My parents insisted that my brother and I take typing in summer school. What a waste of time. I've only been using the skill for the last sixty years. Thanks, Mom and Dad. |
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Post by themaestro on Jun 26, 2021 7:48:25 GMT -5
My mom insisted I take take typing in high school. It will help in college, she said. So I gook it. I was the only male in my class. I was in a college prep curriculum and I was the only person in my curriculum in the class. However, I'm glad she made me do it. I was able to type my own papers in school. When computers came along, I ended up in IT, and it was also very helpful.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jun 26, 2021 8:38:50 GMT -5
Do they still have typing classes in schools? The biggest challenge would probably be training the kids not to use their thumbs.
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Post by Sharkie on Jun 26, 2021 8:46:03 GMT -5
Do they still have typing classes in schools? The biggest challenge would probably be training the kids not to use their thumbs. Teacher: ……“could everyone please put down your phones and place your hands on the home row”. |
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Post by Taildragger on Jun 26, 2021 13:14:18 GMT -5
Just to show how ancient I am: I took "touch typing" in 7th grade. The teacher had a portable phonograph (checked out from the "audio/visual room", where the 16mm movie projectors were also kept) in the front of the room and would play cuts off a record whose tempo matched the the number of words per minute at which we were striving to type at a giving point. We were assigned big, clunky, Underwood, manual typewriters left over from the 1940s.
"White Out" hadn't been invented yet, so corrections were made either by "striking through" the mistake and re-typing it correctly or by trying to erase the mistake with a gritty, highly-abrasive "ink eraser" which looked like a pencil with the grey eraser at one end and a stiff little brush at the other. These erasers usually succeeded mostly in rubbing a hole through the paper.
I had a Royal portable, manual typewriter that I used through college. It was smaller than, but just as primitive as the old Underwoods.
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Post by Laker on Jun 26, 2021 13:37:55 GMT -5
My typing schooling was an army 50 hour block while at Fort Ord back in ‘66 and never really used it until key punching data cards when learning programming.
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Post by hushnel on Jun 27, 2021 15:57:20 GMT -5
We had the typing class in school, in 1965. Latter on I qualified as a clerk typeset 2 for a state, University of Florida, job. We had ribbons that had the white out incorporated.
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Post by LTB on Jun 27, 2021 20:46:50 GMT -5
I needed to take an extra elective in 12th grade. I chose typing. I actually enjoyed it and it became helpful in several jobs. The only unpleasant thing about the class was the teacher demanded the student hit up properly with knees together and straight in front of you. Being a guy that was not very comfortable so when I put my leg out to the side of the desk while I typed she would come by and stomp on my foot. LOL
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jun 27, 2021 21:20:00 GMT -5
I can type faster and more accurately than anyone in my office using only the index and middle finger on each hand. Anyone who has formal typing training is genuinely amazed to watch it.
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