From: David Barto <david@kdbarto.org>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 10:56:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <668A9720-D414-4E90-ACD4-0E0A35D74F08@kdbarto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eme3130d78-0f3c-4769-b340-d536ae47f325@alien>
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> On Feb 6, 2021, at 9:22 AM, Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>
>
My mother also insisted that I take typing as a summer school class because “In college you will have to type papers for your professors”. She having been a professor of English at Perdue University.
I took the class and failed because I would backspace and overstrike with the correct letter.
After I got to college I used UCSD Pascal and so typing a backspace to erase the previous letter was fine.
I returned to HS and told the typing instructor that I now type 40 WPM flawlessly because I use a computer, not something with paper. He was not impressed.
The HS replaced the IBM Selectrics with cheap PC clones the next year.
David
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2021-02-06 2:57 Will Senn
2021-02-06 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:22 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 17:29 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:33 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-06 17:47 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 18:06 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 22:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-06 22:47 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-02-07 0:25 ` John Cowan
2021-02-08 22:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 22:58 ` David Barto
2021-02-08 23:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-07 17:43 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-07 19:28 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-07 21:32 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-07 23:17 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-07 23:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 0:56 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-08 5:15 ` Erik E. Fair
2021-02-08 5:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 15:54 ` Will Senn
2021-02-08 5:29 ` Doug McIntyre
2021-02-08 20:41 ` Andrew Newman
2021-02-06 18:56 ` David Barto [this message]
2021-02-08 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-09 16:29 ` Mary Ann Horton
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2017-04-06 2:20 ` Noel Hunt
2017-04-06 2:21 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-06 6:57 ` [TUHS] Unix emacs at Bell Labs and elsewhere Erik E. Fair
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