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<p>typing in high school ancient mechanical typewriters...... final
exam end of the year ...teacher throws towels over everyone
typewriter and hands!<br>
I had two mistakes on the full page.... scored 76 word a minute.<br>
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<p>Then never touched a typewriter or keyboard for 5 years.
Computers in the very late 70's and very early 80s, made me
realize I'd lost all that typing skill.</p>
<p>Over the last 40 years I've authored millions of lines of code
programming factory robotics, video, automated testing, even an
co-authored a complete C.A.S.E. environment<br>
for clean room testing hybrid micro circuits, and now A.I. and
machine learning on monster massively parallel HPC systems.</p>
<p>To this day if 5 fingers on both hands are used when I type I'd
be surprised. 4 fingers is normal</p>
<p>ptegler<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/1/2020 1:24 AM, Greg Lemon wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Patrick,
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<div dir="auto">I have you beat, have been writing as part of my
job and hobbies for over 30 years. I use four fingers. If I
don't think about it I realize sometimes I am doing it from
muscle memory and not looking, if I start to think about it
the magic goes away and I have to look. Still make way too
many mistakes. Preparing papers for college with a typewriter
was pretty painful, I tell the kids these stories, but they
just roll their eyes.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I also go one finger at a time on my phone,
can't do the two fingered thing like the kids. Interestingly,
I just noticed, I type with my right hand on my phone, even
though I am very left dominent with most everything else I do.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Greg Lemon</div>
<div dir="auto">TR250</div>
<div dir="auto">Greg Lemon<br>
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<div dir="auto">TR250</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:56 PM
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<p>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>
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<p>Patrick</p>
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<div>On 1/31/2020 6:27 AM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:<br>
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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>
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<div style="clear:both"><font size="4">Dave </font><br>
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To: 'TeriAnn J. Wakeman' <a
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Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<br>
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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">
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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">
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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">
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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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On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman<br clear="none">
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM<br
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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">
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> Busted.<br clear="none">
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> Bud<br clear="none">
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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">
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TeriAnn<br clear="none">
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