[GreenKeys] Typing Instruction

[Keith Lueck]

 Guess I'll jump in...
I became enthralled with computers when I was in 7th grade.  Our school system had an HP 2000/F timeshare system and the junior high I went to had a 33 ASR (we saved our programs on paper tape).  Being able to type well became immediately important to me, and I took typing as a summer class before 8th grade.  
Typing well became even more important in my freshman year at university - our class was the last to have to use IBM 029 punches.  You could enable printing at the top of the card, but there was no backspace, the character you'd just typed was obscured by the punch mechanism, and of course, if you made a mistake, you had to discard the card (so to speak... <g>). 
    On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 06:38:41 PM CST, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:  
 
 There were not many boys in the typing class in my high school circa
1955, but I was not the only one.

A friend who was an old Western Union operator could touch type pretty
fast on the 2B printer or the perforator-only machine.  But for a
regular typewriter he did hunt-and-peck.  Western Union preferred the
celluloid key tops over the green spring cushion kind.  It's my opinion
that one can probably type faster that way when your fingers don't have
to travel the extra distance.

     ---

     "Ya can argue all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was."
     "No it ain't! No it ain't!  But ya gotta know the territory."
         Meredith Willson, The Music Man
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