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[72.197.247.231]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s18sm11859046pjr.14.2021.02.06.09.33.54 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 06 Feb 2021 09:33:54 -0800 (PST) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <5cb7edc8-7d43-aa3a-334f-18e17aa2fa16@gmail.com> From: Mary Ann Horton Message-ID: <2ffbcab8-b651-c3f9-d4ed-e9ff792cfde6@mhorton.net> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 09:33:53 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------F058D0D1B58AEAFA505F450D" Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F058D0D1B58AEAFA505F450D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I learned on a manual typewriter in 7th grade, but I got fast on a keypunch. To this day i don't use the right shift key, because it didn't work on a keypunch. At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch typist. That's why vi commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a line of grad students made me put it back.     Mary Ann On 2/6/21 9:22 AM, Ron Natalie wrote: > One of the smartest things my mother did was make me take typing in > summer school one year.    Little did she or I knew that being able to > type 60WPM was going to become a very important asset in my eventual > career. > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Clem Cole" > > To: "Will Senn" > > Cc: "TUHS main list" > > Sent: 2/6/2021 11:55:08 AM > Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors > >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:57 PM Will Senn > > wrote: >> >> I did see mention a while back about a TOPS-10 typing tutor, not >> unix, but in the spirit - surely there's some unix history around >> typing tutors. >> >> Nah   I just learned to push harder on the ASR-33 keys ;-) >> Funny, back-in-the-day, the local public HS had a typing class for >> the girls, which two of my sisters took.  The all-male prep-school >> where my dad taught and my brothers and I all went, had nothing. But >> I had access to an ASR-33 and just migrated to it. >> >> To this day, my wife (who is a concert pianist/organist) can touch >> type but she is amazed at watching me with my 2, 3 or 4 finger style. >> >> Clem >> ᐧ --------------F058D0D1B58AEAFA505F450D Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I learned on a manual typewriter in 7th grade, but I got fast on a keypunch. To this day i don't use the right shift key, because it didn't work on a keypunch.

At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch typist. That's why vi commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a line of grad students made me put it back.

    Mary Ann

On 2/6/21 9:22 AM, Ron Natalie wrote:
One of the smartest things my mother did was make me take typing in summer school one year.    Little did she or I knew that being able to type 60WPM was going to become a very important asset in my eventual career.  


------ Original Message ------
From: "Clem Cole" <clemc@ccc.com>
To: "Will Senn" <will.senn@gmail.com>
Cc: "TUHS main list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: 2/6/2021 11:55:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors



On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:57 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
I did see mention a while back about a TOPS-10 typing tutor, not unix, but in the spirit - surely there's some unix history around typing tutors.
Nah   I just learned to push harder on the ASR-33 keys ;-)
 
Funny, back-in-the-day, the local public HS had a typing class for the girls, which two of my sisters took.   The all-male prep-school where my dad taught and my brothers and I all went, had nothing. But I had access to an ASR-33 and just migrated to it.

To this day, my wife (who is a concert pianist/organist) can touch type but she is amazed at watching me with my 2, 3 or 4 finger style.

Clem
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