There is another, a bit lazier but perhaps better for a late adopter looking to change her habits, and nice example showed up on an auction site last week. I set my sights on it, bid, won and it arrived today:
A Remington 5 with color-coded keytops to remind the hapless which finger goes where! It's in nice shape, too; a little dusty and a few dings in the paint but not totally beat up and the keys I have tried are working well. Plus, it's got that zoomy streamlining, so you know it won't overheat when one's speed reaches the practical limit.A little Goop to clean the exterior, some Flitz for the plated metal and de-mustification for the case....
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* Here's just how 'leet I am: years ago, I lived in an apartment in an old, Victorian house at No. 1337!
I never learned touch-typing, and I regret it. When I was in high-school, the only people taking typing classes were girls, and guys who wanted to be writers or journalists.
ReplyDeleteTyping class was one of the best classes I ever took in high school. Our school had just upgraded to electric typewriters (fancy!). It would still be a couple of years before I laid my hands on a computer. My typewriter at home was a manual.
ReplyDeleteI pound the keyboard pretty good - still hitting the keys like I did on the old manual. I also type very quickly. My partner at work calls it "angry typing" :)
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ReplyDeleteHah! My Grandma had one of those. She taught me how to type on it when I was in elementary school.
ReplyDeleteVery cool. Man talk about deja vu. Just seeing that typewriter brings back so many memories.
Hope you enjoy it.
Joe
Self-taught typist, and I can always tell folks who took formal classes, because they always make nasty cracks about my typing style.
ReplyDeleteIn AIT I was just grateful to pass the typing test, officially 25 WPM, one mistake, because I stopped when I reached the designated minimum number of words to pass. (Well, grateful to pass, and to not have one of the blank keyboards in the room...)
Later, post-Army retirement when I was getting desperate for a job, the temp agency I applied at officially rated me at 45+, no mistakes. Of course, it's easy to when it's a computer...
While they tried to teach me in 7th grade it didn't stick till later trying to type large programs on ASR-33 TTY or later terminals hooked to PDP-8i. Since then I've acquired many old computers but the ASR-33 has been banned for noise and space considerations but not the PDP-8f!
ReplyDeleteI hate most current computer keyboards for both feel and the caps lock convention used.