From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 18817 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2022 13:28:05 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Nov 2022 13:28:05 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A14841DD5; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 23:27:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CAF9241DBF for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 23:27:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from kent.sdaoden.eu (kent.sdaoden.eu [192.0.2.2]) by sdaoden.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C976116059; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 14:27:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by kent.sdaoden.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D6A7EA76C2; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 14:27:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:27:34 +0100 Author: Steffen Nurpmeso From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: "John P. Linderman" Message-ID: <20221102132734.PwCRX%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: References: <20221102121352.MhcLw%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Mail-Followup-To: "John P. Linderman" , steve jenkin , TUHS User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.24-329-gce485e68d3 OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. Message-ID-Hash: 4MH5NBUWLPBJAG4AVA7LAJDAGJOLYMOD X-Message-ID-Hash: 4MH5NBUWLPBJAG4AVA7LAJDAGJOLYMOD X-MailFrom: steffen@sdaoden.eu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: steve jenkin , TUHS X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early Unix and Keyboard Skills List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: John P. Linderman wrote in : |When I was in high school (in the early sixties) I tried to sign up for |typing, which was taught on manual typewriters. I was told that the class |was for girls only, and I was turned away. I never did develop good typing |skills. I'm pretty much a two-fingered typist. Ironically, I have probably This can be a winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4nX0Xrn-wo (The classic.) |done more typing than 90% of the female classmates who were allowed to take |the class. These machine-gunners are in another league per se from my modest point of view. Ten finger thunderstorms. |Precision figured mightily in those days, which may also have pre-dated |white-out. Eliminating an error was a big deal. Now it's dead easy, and |auto-correct has already fixed several errors in this message. Since i now own a (used!!) smartphone i unfortunately have to live with such things when doing my little bit of SMS messaging. It is terrible. Ooften do i have to delete the word entirely to unlock the screen. Ach! for the Asians who commit suicide because they messed up a calligraphical painting. It seems to me TUHS has lost its Sender: message header btw, which longs for fixing as it is SHOULD in RFC 5322 in this ML case (except for Warren himself, maybe). --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)