[GreenKeys] Typing Instruction

[Jim Haynes]

Not to my knowledge, but then I would not have been in a position to know.
Of course Teletype employed many secretaries who were trained on 
typewriters, which would have been a condition of being hired for that
kind of job.  There were also a lot of IBM keypunch operators.

A personal note - I took typing in high school specifically because I
thought it would be useful in life even though I didn't plan to become
a secretary.  On one of my summer jobs at Teletype...now in Chicago it
was customary for lots of businesses to have a two-week vacation shutdown
in the summer.  Which made it hard for engineers to get anything done
because so many suppliers would be shut down at various times during
the summer.  Teletype had a vacation shutdown, during which the plant was
cleaned, but as a summer student I didn't qualify for a vacation.
Some urgent R&D projects did get worked on during vacation shutdown.
One of these was the FAA ADIS development.  I wasn't officially part
of that project, but before vacation shutdown I helped out by punching
test tapes on a GPE perforator.  I was pretty good at it as a result of
RTTY experience back at the university ham station, so that was noticed
and one of the supervisors decided they could use me during vacation
just for that reason, so I didn't have to suffer a two week layoff.

I've already told the story of the engineer at Teletype who was involved
in demonstrating the time-division multiplex system to a bunch of Navy
brass.  He had previously worked for Western Union and there had taught
himself to type the quick brown fox message rapidly and _backwards_.
Which astounded the Navy guys until they realized that what they were
seeing on the printer was exactly what he was typing on the keyboard.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, Bruce Gentry via GreenKeys wrote:

> 
> Another discussion here has evoked a question. Did Teletype or Kleinschmidt
> encourage or require any of their employees  to take typing instruction? Did
> anyone create a stunt box feature and instructional tapes for typing
> practise?
>