Do You Use Two Fingers?

[Black wallnut]

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[L. D. Jeffries]

I went to a VERY small country high school; the typing class (half a year and half a credit) was all girls! I thought that would be an easy credit as well as a GREAT place to, ah "score" and it was!! Being an eight finger typer came in very handy all through my career; kind of like riding a bike, you never really forget how.

[Stan]

After about 26 years on keyboards, all 10 digits do their share. And looking at the keyboard usually doesn't help much as a good number of the keys no longer have the characters left on 'em.

Ever notice how quirks can develop??? My right side shift key is usually worn pretty badly -- while the left side shift key looks almost new.

I took one semester of typing in high school as I was working part-time in a print shop. Helped with the typing, but not the stomach groans as my main job was type-setting a cook book for a German lady that was to be printed in bulk. Late nights with them recipes was not fun on an empty stomach.

[billwmeyer]

typing

I took 1 year of typing in high school and I year of office machines. I learned how to use a dictaphone, a rotary calculator, a ten key calculator and a full key calculator. The 10 key calculator only added and subtracted. To multiply 12 x 12 you put in 12 twice then add a zero and entered once. This was of course before pocket calculators. I have often said that those two classes were the best things I took in high school. Of course I am an accountant now.

In my sophomore year in college, my economics class mandated me to attend an appearance on campus from someone from Texas Instrument. This ding bat told us that in a few months they were going to release this new product that would fit in your pocket and would add subtract and multiply and divide, and it would cost less than a 10 key calculator. I knew he was screwy. Pocket calculators weren't even in science fiction. They always used slide rules.

Bill

[shoottx]

In my sophomore year in college, my economics class mandated me to attend an appearance on campus from someone from Texas Instrument. This ding bat told us that in a few months they were going to release this new product that would fit in your pocket and would add subtract and multiply and divide, and it would cost less than a 10 key calculator. I knew he was screwy. Pocket calculators weren't even in science fiction. They always used slide rules.

Bill

My sophomore year in college I bought my first 4 function (add subtract and multiply and divide) calculator for $125.00. It was marked down $40.00 because the new version had memory

[Ed62]

I took typing in high school, learning on an old Underwood or Royal. Those were the old days of non-electric typewriters. For some reason, it came easy for me. I think I was the fastest in class, maybe one girl faster than me. I still do O.K., but these newfangled keyboards make me make a lot of mistakes.

Ed

[gjat]

LOL. I type normally, and am pretty good. Back in the early 70's, someone gave me a very old typewriter that didn't work. I took it apart and fixed it, but here I was with a typewriter with nothing to do. My neighbor's mom gave me an old typewriter book so I taught myself typing during the summer for no other reason than than to use my refurbished typewriter.

The next school year I took typing so I could goof off for a class. The typing teacher was also my geometry teacher. I sucked at geometry and anything to do with algebra. She gave me extra help at geometry during the class, I sometimes helped others with typing. She also gave me hall passes whenever I asked, which I used to smoke tobacco and other herbs in the boys room. I ended up with a B geometry and sound fundamentals in algebra which helped immensly in subseqent years. She gave me a C in typing because I put forth no effort to get better at typing during the semester though I typed about 50 wpm, which was what I typed when I started the class.

[crokett]

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[Black wallnut]

I saw this comming

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