> 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.  
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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