did any one of u learn to type on a underwood mnual typewriter ?

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12. My late mother had a manual Underwood. She was an excellent typist and won several...

...typing contest when she was in high school. It weighed a ton.

I, on the other hand, can't type worth a damn because I never took a typing class. I was going to during my senior year of high school, but it was a choice between typing and advanced biology, and being a science geek, I wanted to take the bio course, so I did. I can hunt and peck with 6 fingers, but have to look at the keyboard. What I wouldn't have given to have a word processor while I was in grad school, but they didn't exist in 1980-82.

I was really sad when I found out that my mom had given her typewriter to the metal scavengers. I had intended to keep it and make a little vintage family heirloom display using it and a few old photographs and books, but, alas, she didn't know I wanted it.