Retro question: do you remember working with a manual typewriter?

that satisfying click and sliding the carriage?

do you remember setting the tabs all by yourself?

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calicuz · 56-60, M

Are you kidding, typing was still an elective when I was still in High School. Glad I took the course now, didn't know how much I would need it today.

pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M

@calicuz In Junior high - two years were mandatory for us.. I hated it then but I love knowing how to type now and can smack out sixty or more words per minute on my computer... I have an older friend who watched me go at the computer and he said "I hate you" - I looked at him asking why? He said "YOU CAN TYPE".. he can't and it takes him far FAR longer to communicate than it does me...

calicuz · 56-60, M

@pdqsailor1

I really have no idea how fast I type, it can't be very fast with all the deleting and retyping I have to do with all the misspelling. 🤣

pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M

@calicuz I type it out fast, the auto spell check fixes some things but it messes up others, On proof reading I edit the document - if it is something important I edit extensively... The option to craft the document logically on a screen to convey what the reader is to see is to me heaven and the time to finished document is FAR faster electronically than it ever was any other way.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@calicuz My mom encouraged me to take typing in school because she knew we would all be on computers.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@JimboSaturn

Wow, she was a visionary.