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From: "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "Clem Cole" <clemc@ccc.com>, "Will Senn" <will.senn@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:22:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eme3130d78-0f3c-4769-b340-d536ae47f325@alien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2M5EOKO9TZoa0W2NWaC+9dGS3Ki3wVxcLhN2=w0Fm8E_w@mail.gmail.com>

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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.


------ 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
>ᐧ

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-06 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-06  2:57 Will Senn
2021-02-06 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:22   ` Ron Natalie [this message]
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
2021-02-08 21:50       ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-09 16:29         ` Mary Ann Horton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-06  2:15 [TUHS] I just noticed all the cfont aka C++ in research Jason Stevens
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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