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    <p>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.</p>
    <p>Just like learning Morse Code, once you learn it it is hard to
      program out of your brain.</p>
    <p>Typed all my life as a software engineer. <br>
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    <p>Maybe I will be put 6' under with a keyboard.</p>
    <p>Bob<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/31/20 10:03 PM, DAVID MASSEY
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        <div> <font size="3">I pretty much use the orthodox method but
            I'm no touch typist.  Turn the lights out and it gets ugly.</font><br>
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        <div style="clear:both"><font size="4">Dave </font><br>
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          From: Patrick Baize <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pbaize@satx.rr.com"><pbaize@satx.rr.com></a><br>
          To: triumphs <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net"><triumphs@autox.team.net></a><br>
          Sent: Fri, Jan 31, 2020 6:58 pm<br>
          Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<br>
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              <div>OH Ya, missed 2,  left pinky for shift and right
                thumb for space bar. haha , so 5.<br clear="none">
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              <div>Patrick<br clear="none">
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              <div class="yiv8427189964moz-cite-prefix">On 1/31/2020
                6:56 PM, Patrick Baize wrote:<br clear="none">
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              <div>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.  <br clear="none">
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              <div>Patrick</div>
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              <div class="yiv8427189964moz-cite-prefix">On 1/31/2020
                6:27 AM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:<br clear="none">
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                <div> <font size="3">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?</font><br clear="none">
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                <div style="clear:both;"><font size="4">Dave </font><br
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                  From: jpaynepbr <a rel="noopener noreferrer"
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                    ymailto="mailto:jpaynepbr@cox.net" target="_blank"
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                    moz-do-not-send="true"><jpaynepbr@cox.net></a><br
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                  To: 'TeriAnn J. Wakeman' <a rel="noopener noreferrer"
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                  triumphs <a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect"
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                    moz-do-not-send="true"><triumphs@autox.team.net></a><br
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                  Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 9:07 pm<br clear="none">
                  Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<br clear="none">
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                  <div dir="ltr">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.<br clear="none">
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                    If you were "Vo-Tech" typing was an option, but
                    "Health" was still mandatory.  <br clear="none">
                    <br clear="none">
                    Same teacher taught both classes.  One of the most
                    bitter and angry people I have ever met.  <br
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                    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.<br clear="none">
                    <br clear="none">
                    Typing was one of the most valuable skills I ever
                    learned.  <br clear="none">
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                    My kids all had typing classes in public schools in
                    1st and 2nd grade post 2010.  <br clear="none">
                    <br clear="none">
                    Time and technology change everything. <br
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                    I wish I could learn to type on a phone and manage
                    the "autocorrect", that would be something.<br
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                    From: Triumphs <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>>
                    On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman<br clear="none">
                    Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM<br
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                    To: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br
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                    Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<br clear="none">
                    <br clear="none">
                    On 1/30/20 6:23 PM, Bud Rolofson wrote:<br
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                    > Exactly, I took typing in eighth grade because
                    there lots of girls in <br clear="none">
                    > that class and I was a horny 13 yo.  But my 50
                    yo typing muscle memory <br clear="none">
                    > will always space twice after a period. Can’t
                    help it.<br clear="none">
                    ><br clear="none">
                    > Busted.<br clear="none">
                    ><br clear="none">
                    > Bud<br clear="none">
                    <br clear="none">
                    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.<br
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                    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.<br clear="none">
                    <br clear="none">
                    TeriAnn<br clear="none">
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