[QCWA] Tape downfall

[Norm Gertz]

Joe.......remember that typing ability was just as important as copying 
CW.......operators had to use typing skills on the Kleinschmidt perforators 
to punch out wheatstone tapes for the Boehme keying heads.
They also had to be able to transcribe the recorded slip tapes to a mill.
Almost every operator at WAR could type 100 wpm or more.
That is a common speed even among office typists....

73   Norm    K1AA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Fenn" <jfenn at lava.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Tape downfall


> Well Tom I thought just about everybody could touch type.
> I learned it in Sophomore year of Hich School.   I am finding
> it difficult to do so now at 85.   I have to carefully watch
> what I am typeing and then bs and do it again many times.
> Specially because I am switching back and forth between
> my Commodore 128 computer and my WINXP/Pro Lenovo laptop.
> The commodore has a huge well spaced keyboard, but if I
> type for a while on that darned narrow spaced laptop I
> get into trouble on both mahines when I return to the Commodore!!!!
>                       Joe
>
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