UPDATE: I am adding a thank you to Yamini for telling me in yesterdays post, that covering the touchpad on my laptop would stop all the crazy stuff my laptop keyboard does.... it works. I am typing now with an index card taped over the touch pad. it is that or hold my hands up. to old to do that... I use a wireless mouse not the touch pad. to see her comment in detail click here and go to comments.
You are just my type.... Can you touch type?
I just typed this without looking at my screen. I am so thankful I took Typing 1 and 2 in high school in early 60's.
I had several jobs that required typing in computer screens, but never had one using a typewriter.
For that I was thankful, no changing ribbons or need for white out and throwing that carriage back and forth.
Have you used any of these? What jobs have you needed typing skills?
My dad typed his sermons on one just like this, and he did it with his two pointer fingers. And lots of white out. he typed so hard his sermons had holes in them.
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"He typed so hard his sermons had holes in them!" I love that! He must have been a Baptist preacher!!
Hari OM
...haha... I read that 'holey sermon' line just as the local church bell started to ring!!!
Yes, I am a touch typist. Actually went to secretarial college for six months after leaving school and not only achieved high passes in typing but in Pitman shorthand - remember that??? I had cause to use both skills shortly after qualification when I became the office girl for BICC in Nigeria. On return to the UK in 1979, there were still typewriters, but the computer was just beginning to make its presence felt, and shorthand taken over by dictaphone. I no sooner mastered that when the PC revolution properly hit and I readily adapted with the tech - even going so far as to get a degree in computing!!! I have had a go at the modern 'dicatphone' thing of voice control for producing words; grim failure and am much faster anyway with the keyboard... YAM xx
We had a typewriter at home that my dad used all the time. It looked like the green one in the bottom row of the first picture.
I took typing in high school and we used electric typewriters. I remember we used to have to put a piece of paper over our hands so we couldn't see the keyboard. I have no idea how many words per minute I can type but I do a pretty good job. I even catch most of my mistakes.
Hello,
I took typing and an additional class for the 10 key adding machine, back in the early 1970's. I rarely use my laptop, I am usually always on my desktop.
Happy Sunday, wishing you a great new week!
I still have my typewriter (antique). And I too use a wireless mouse.
Yes, I took typing in HS and yes, touch-type and glad I never lost it, although my hands don't hit the touchpad. Using typing in each one of my jobs (except waitressing), I do pretty well too!...:)jp
Count me in as a touch typist. Two years in high school. My positions in the business world didn't require much typing in the early years. Touch calculating was used more.
When I went back to work computers were the new thing. Big difference in touch when using a keyboard resulting in increased accuracy and speed for me. And when my boss showed me highlight, cut and paste - indescribable bliss---haha.
I too have problems with unexplained occurrences when using the laptop and will be applying the index card immediately. THANK YOU Yamini and Sandra for sharing that bit of information.
LOL MS...your dad had Hol(e)y. That was funny
I too am a touch typist thanks to 2 years typing. As for shorthand
I remember Greg and I learned Speed writing too. That was with our alphabet but words were abbreviated and there were also non letter symbols like anything capitalized was underscored,
Hugs Cecilia
So, I'm staring and staring at these typewriters and can't remember for the life of me what I learned on. Except it was big and bulky like your dad's. How I hated using onion skin paper, sheets of carbon and the worst -- changing that dang ribbon. I thought my parents were so awful, making me enroll in Typing … then I wound up loving it.
Every job I've had involved typing, and sometimes Gregg shorthand. When I learned I got the job at Channel 10, I went out and rented the same kind of typewriter (unfamiliar to me) they had and practiced on it at home until I became familiar with it.
Loving this post and everyone's comments; now I don't feel like such a dinosaur!
Yes, I can type without looking. We had a little typewriter at home and my sister taught me how to type when I was just young...taught me where my fingers go, etc. She could make that carriage fly!
What is funny, is most of the time if you asked me by surprise where the keys are, I could only tell you where a few of the letters are on the keyboard, but my fingers just know. Set me down and I can go to town.
I am going to go look at Yamini's comment..
I too took typing in high school and made my kids take it too - best thing ever - we are all happy. My poor hubs still hunts and pecks. I don't know about my grandson - they type different on a phone! Have a good weekend Sandra. sandie
I am grateful for high school typing classes too.
All of my term papers in H.S. and college were done on the old Remington...with the carriage I had to fling back and forth. Many a blob of whiteout was used and so much frustration along with it.
I can touch type most of the time but I have had some I sentences when my fingers were off a few keys...
Never did the typing for work but so happy I learned anyway
I really love working on my computer now with the ability to print and erase with so much ease.
My Mom & I both had typewriters, she loved hers. Mine was a bit more modern, more like the one on the top right. That is funny about holes in the paper, he must have really struggled. I type fast, but it is the GINNY Method, learned myself over years of typing with no lessons. definitely not touch typing. Phil is like you. It is a marvel to me that people can type without looking.
I used to have an electric typewriter...although I'm not sure why...maybe for high school term papers? I have always enjoyed writing, but always by hand...not typerwriter(or even keyboard except when blogging).
I was taught typing years ago and am very happy I learned this skill. I still love the old typewriters.
I did a year's secretarial course at college. To learn touch type we had to type to a musical rhythm on those heavy old typewriters. I was a copy typist and then a dictaphone typist in a typing pool work situation, which was fun. Later on electric typewriters came in. I still prefer a keyboard rather than a touch pad. I wish I still had my vintage mechanical typewriter as they are a collector's item now.
So is she saying the touch pad gets you in trouble? I hate touch pads and use a mouse on both of my laptops. I can type without looking at the keyboard. I was a secretary for many years. Also took classes in H.S. What I don't get is how people can use their thumbs to type on their phones!!!
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