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AllaN01Bear

(24,833 posts) Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:48 AM 7 hrs ago

typewriters.

what did u learn to blind touch type on? i learned on an ibem selectric . what did u learn on?

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typewriters. (Original Post) AllaN01Bear 7 hrs ago OP

Manual SheltieLover 7 hrs ago #1

Typing class manual justaprogressive 7 hrs ago #2

Manual in school. Got up to 60 words a day. mobeau69 7 hrs ago #3

Pretty sure an electric IBM in high school early 70s. Typed my thesis on a manual. CoopersDad 7 hrs ago #4

Classic Underwood in high school. LastDemocratInSC 7 hrs ago #5

Manual typewriter. Little did I know in the 1960s that typing would actually help in work decades later. Silent Type 6 hrs ago #6

Manual black old typewriter. OLDMDDEM 6 hrs ago #7

A Royal manual from the 1940s. no_hypocrisy 6 hrs ago #8

SheltieLover

(66,822 posts)

1. Manual

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:54 AM

7 hrs ago

justaprogressive

(3,407 posts)

2. Typing class manual

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:08 PM

7 hrs ago

My Hermes portable lasted me through college

mobeau69

(11,937 posts)

3. Manual in school. Got up to 60 words a day.

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Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:08 PM

7 hrs ago

CoopersDad

(3,167 posts)

4. Pretty sure an electric IBM in high school early 70s. Typed my thesis on a manual.

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:14 PM

7 hrs ago

I love them as machines go and before computers you needed to have one.

LastDemocratInSC

(4,003 posts)

5. Classic Underwood in high school.

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:17 PM

7 hrs ago

When I graduated from college in 1972 and started doing software development I was the only person in my group who had typing training. I was able to sail through assignments while the others hunted and pecked and taught themselves bad keyboard habits.