[TR] needs repaired

[Bob]

I did take typing in HS. It really helped me in the Army. I became a RTT 
operator and could really push those 60 CPS teletype machines.

Just like learning Morse Code, once you learn it it is hard to program 
out of your brain.

Typed all my life as a software engineer.

Maybe I will be put 6' under with a keyboard.

Bob

On 1/31/20 10:03 PM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:
> I pretty much use the orthodox method but I'm no touch typist.  Turn 
> the lights out and it gets ugly.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Baize <pbaize at satx.rr.com>
> To: triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Fri, Jan 31, 2020 6:58 pm
> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>
> OH Ya, missed 2,  left pinky for shift and right thumb for space bar. 
> haha , so 5.
> Patrick
> On 1/31/2020 6:56 PM, Patrick Baize wrote:
> I never took typing in school. Later I tried to use "Mavis Beaves 
> teaches typing", didn't work. I have been writing software for over 30 
> years, I use 3 fingers, 1 on left hand, 2 on the right.
> Patrick
>
> On 1/31/2020 6:27 AM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:
> I never took a typing class, I am self taught.  I remember staying up 
> all night typing a report for class in highschool.  When I started 
> working there was no need for an engineer to type. Enter the desk-top 
> computer.  Now I spend most of my time staring at a screen typing on a 
> keyboard. Who'd a thunk?
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpaynepbr <jpaynepbr at cox.net>
> To: 'TeriAnn J. Wakeman' <tjwakeman at gmail.com>; triumphs 
> <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 9:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>
> In 1990, when I graduated HS, if you were going to graduate and be 
> "college bound", you had to take a typing class.  It was Sr. year and 
> it was "Health" one semester, "Typing" the next or vice versa.
>
> If you were "Vo-Tech" typing was an option, but "Health" was still 
> mandatory.
>
> Same teacher taught both classes.  One of the most bitter and angry 
> people I have ever met.
>
> The though of  "Health" class taught by an angry, frigid, humorless 60 
> year old woman still makes me wonder.  I guess if you had to manage 
> the subject matter with a bunch of teenagers, many of whom were headed 
> nowhere, after a few years, you would end up like that too.
>
> Typing was one of the most valuable skills I ever learned.
>
> My kids all had typing classes in public schools in 1st and 2nd grade 
> post 2010.
>
> Time and technology change everything.
>
> I wish I could learn to type on a phone and manage the "autocorrect", 
> that would be something.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of TeriAnn 
> J. Wakeman
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>
> On 1/30/20 6:23 PM, Bud Rolofson wrote:
> > Exactly, I took typing in eighth grade because there lots of girls in
> > that class and I was a horny 13 yo.  But my 50 yo typing muscle memory
> > will always space twice after a period. Can’t help it.
> >
> > Busted.
> >
> > Bud
>
> I didn't take typing in high school because I didn't want to be 
> pigeonholed as a secretary. In early years I went in to interview for 
> a technical position with a degree in electronics & almost always was 
> asked what my typing speed was. When I mentioned about a page ever 2 
> hours or so, I got interviewed for the job I was applying for. I knew 
> a woman with a Stanford masters in physics who in the mid 60s worked 
> as a tech group secretary.
>
> During college when I needed to submit typed papers, I traded typing 
> for either a homemade apple pie or a ready to bake homemade lasagna. I 
> single space between sentences only on emails. That is because my 
> mailer produces strange characters when I double space a sentence. The 
> books I have authored are all double spaced between sentences and my 
> reviewers have forced me to use oxford comas. They are not used in 
> technical papers.
>
> TeriAnn
>
>
>
>
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