Pistolero
Well-Known Member
My mother told me to take typing class in the 10th grade, and I did, was the only guy in the class.
The other section had one or maybe two guys. That was in 66, and computers were behemoths in
a data center, and you ONLY communicated with cards, although the card punch was a typewriter
keyboard. My parents got me an electric typewriter before I went off to college, so I never was much
of a key pounder, have hardly ever used a manual.
I paid professional typists to make the final copies of my master's thesis, about broke the bank, but you
had to have something like 12 originals to hand in. Paid to get offset printing, got a few extra copies.
Typing sure made my job easier, very quick to write reports. First 10 year, no PCs, so I would do a rough
draft on typewriter have the secretary fix it up and make a finished copy on letterhead. Eventually
secretaries went the way of buggy whips, except for bosses, and even then they were 'office assistants'
didn't do much typing.
Thanks again, Mom.
Bill
The other section had one or maybe two guys. That was in 66, and computers were behemoths in
a data center, and you ONLY communicated with cards, although the card punch was a typewriter
keyboard. My parents got me an electric typewriter before I went off to college, so I never was much
of a key pounder, have hardly ever used a manual.
I paid professional typists to make the final copies of my master's thesis, about broke the bank, but you
had to have something like 12 originals to hand in. Paid to get offset printing, got a few extra copies.
Typing sure made my job easier, very quick to write reports. First 10 year, no PCs, so I would do a rough
draft on typewriter have the secretary fix it up and make a finished copy on letterhead. Eventually
secretaries went the way of buggy whips, except for bosses, and even then they were 'office assistants'
didn't do much typing.
Thanks again, Mom.
Bill