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> I was very clear that I would not need cursive just based on electric typewriters.

No one could read mine; always points off for penmanship. When I had to write something down for myself, it was always all-caps block lettering, and then I grew up and got work and it turns out that almost all programmers write that way.

> If I had been better informed I would have known about Wang word processors years earlier, but I probably couldn't have swung the 20k to acquire one.

If I'd been better informed, I would have blown school off entirely and started hacking Perl scripts into webservers professionally instead of writing shitty CGI at home for fun.