[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Typing Instruction

[Jones, Douglas W]

From: [1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com] -- Tuesday, November 29, 2022 3:17 PM

> In my day boys were not trained to touch type, considered girls work.  Ugh.

In 1968 or so, I took typing at Ann Arbor High School.

My typing teacher only grudgingly allowed boys in her class; she as much as said that every man that knew how to type was likely to deny a girl a secretarial job.  Count it as a somewhat warped bit of proto-feminism.  I persisted in the class because I was also taking "Computer Math", a new course that used a pair of Teletype 33ASR to access an early commercial timesharing system (the machine had a 24-bit word), and it was obvious that being able to touch type instead of hunt and peck would serve me well.

        Doug Jones
        jones at cs.uiowa.edu