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   @Urban_Hermit @flyblue @eyrea @samplereality My best college papers were typed, cut w/scissors & taped together for final draft. HS was essays w/fountain pens in inkwells, smeared by being left handed.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:22:17 JST Urban Hermit

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     @stevewfolds @flyblue @eyrea @samplereality when I was in highschool in 1988 my mom bought a used manual typewriter for me to use when classes started requiring typewritten papers and I needed to practice for typing class. A year later she relented and got an electric typewriter with a page and a quarter of memory on a 14 character LCD screen so I could edit out mistakes and typos. In 1990, my last year of highschool, I won my first computer in a contest and could finally write a complete paper.

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     Flyover blue (flyblue@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:22:18 JST Flyover blue

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     @stevewfolds @Urban_Hermit @eyrea @samplereality If I recall correctly, the querty layout was designed specifically to slow down typing so manual typewriters could keep up. The Dvorak layout is more efficient/easier, but the manual keys with the type face would hit each other if the typist was good.

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     @flyblue @Urban_Hermit @eyrea @samplereality Learned touch typing in ‘61. Yes, locking keys & ink on fingers. Reams of paper through an Olivetti Lettera 22 ‘67-‘71. 1st laptop :)

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     @Urban_Hermit @eyrea @samplereality Numeric keypad is upside down vs phone. That caught me many times on computer & phone at the same time.

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     Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:22:20 JST Urban Hermit

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     @eyrea @samplereality it is interesting that the numeric keypad, which I can do mostly subconsciously without any training or looking, is not remotely diagonal like the keyboard, and is essentially in the order we all learned digits.

     I am old enough that I had a one semester typing class in highschool, but I have autism and fine finger movement without looking has always been difficult for me. I am a slow typist, but I will try to remember YHN, UJM, ect. THX.