[TR] needs repaired

[DAVID MASSEY]

 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 
 
   
   
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 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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