Do You Type? When Did You Learn & Where?

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    Yeah, my brother taught me.

     
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    My parents bought an old second-hand typewriter, when I was in grade school, mostly just to play around with. I learned to hunt and peck on it. It was a complicated gadget and weighed a ton, similar to this one.

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    Learned to type with all fingers in a personal typing class in high school.
     
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    I skipped out on too many typing classes in High School, so there for my typing consists of...right index finger and left thumb...no talent here.:rolleyes:.
     
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    The first time I turned a typed paper in for a class in elementary school (fourth or fifth grade), the teacher refused to accept it and came pretty close to accusing me of not doing my own work. I was furious because, while I was proud of having typed it, I was being accused of cheating. It was kind of like learning a subject very well and acing a test only to be accused of cheating. She never told me she had done that but I think my mom called her because she apologized to me in class. She still insisted that my work be handwritten rather than typed, but she said that it was because a part of the grade was based on penmanship. I considered arguing that she could judge my reports based on errors or the lack of them, but I decided to let it drop. I think I was in seventh grade before I could turn in typed papers.
     
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    Yes, I took a typing class in my senior year of high school as I knew I'd have to type my reports in college. To hire someone to do it for you can be an unnecessary expenditure. I had been given an Olivetti typewriter so I was set. Wish I still had it. Went everywhere with me.
     
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    I took typing my senior year in high school and bought myself a Smith Corona Portable with money as a movie theater doorman.
     
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    High school in the 1960s. I think ours were Olympics; they were manual only, no electrics allowed, though our business had IBM selectrics. Ive got the added skill, woohoo, of owning and using a music typewriter. Can’t touch type on that baby, however. I’ve used it to engrave more than 10 music books.
     
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    Do they teach keyboarding in school? No, not the musical keyboard. Learning to use the keyboard on a computer has to still be a plus in some professions. You can get a lot more done than you can by searching and pecking.
     
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    If you take a typing class, you learn the standard querty keyboard. Musical keyboards are completely different.
     
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