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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next prev parent 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
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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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