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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John H. Nichols on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 02:50 pm:

It come to mind that so many of us were adults when the computers arrived and replaced typewriters, I wonder if you took typing classes in High School business courses and scoffed at since mostly girls took typing courses ? When I was a Sophmore in high school, I convinced 2 buddies to sign up for typing with me when we went to school the coming fall. So we did
and went we went to class the first day, we learned that the girls outnumbered us 7 to 1.
Right away I told my buddies to sit with me, and the first thing the teacher did when she came in was to split the three of us up into a sea of girls right where we really wanted to be.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Strange on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 03:30 pm:

I didn't know it at the time, but the high school course that I used the most in my adult life was (and continues to be) touch typing!

I worked for 35 years in the defense industry and it was painful to watch many of my fellow engineers struggle with their "hunt and peck" method of typing.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 04:03 pm:

I enrolled in a high school typing class. It would put me to sleep within the first 5 minutes so I dropped it and took physics instead, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Alas, as a result I'm condemned to a life of the Columbus method of typing. I seek it out then land on it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Schedler, Sacramento on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 04:04 pm:

The most useful high school classes for me have been:

1. Typing
2. Salesmanship
3. English Composition (with which I still have trouble).

We decorated my Model A and got that special someone elected Homecoming Queen.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Dimock, Newfields NH, USA on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 04:34 pm:

My favorite high school class was Latin.
In fact I liked it so much that I took it twice.
The teacher finally said that she would pass me if I promised to not take the second Latin class, so I took French.
The French teacher was a bit smarter and suggested that I drop the class after about week.
I did enjoy listening to the girls tell me that they loved me in French when I was there.

If I had known about the male/female ratio in typing class I would have taken that one a few times.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Manuel Voyages, ACT Australia on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 04:38 pm:

I learnt the Linotype keyboard [etaoin] when I was a printing apprentice. It is a printing machine with a high speed keyboard unlike the slow and painfull qwerty keyboard.
I still miss it.
Would love to convert my computer over to the fast etaoin layout but dont know how.
Cheers,
Manuel in Oz


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ralph Cunningham on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 04:42 pm:

Took it the last semester of my senior year to be able to type in college...
Typed the practice phrase "It is the duty of a man to aid me and if he can he is to do so" about 10,000 times..That was 61 years ago, still comes in handy...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Will Copeland - Trenton, New Jersey on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 04:51 pm:

40 years ago I was put in a typing class, That lasted just two days, Back then there was only two kinds of students that took typing, Female and those that wanted to be female. Yup, I still type with one finger. When puters first came out I knew this lady that was so fast she would have to wait for the computer to catch up.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 05:17 pm:

I had typical left-hander's penmanship, so took typing in 10th grade. Got a C, which kept me out of honor society. I've been lugging a laptop since 1987, so it has been useful.

The secretary who failed typing was a hunt 'n pecker..


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary H. White - Sheridan, MI on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 05:28 pm:

Being left handed my hand writing was an effort and usually pretty bad. I took typing in high school as I thought it would come in handy. It has been an asset over the years esp.when pouters came on the scene.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Aldrich Orting Wa on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 06:40 pm:

Didn't take typing and wished I had.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John H. Nichols on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 08:22 pm:

Ralph

the phrase we had to learn was

Now is the time for all good men to come to the
aid of their Country.

The nice thing about puter is they are mostly self correcting so the teacher can not tell how
bad your spellin really is.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Pat Clark on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 08:53 pm:

Nope, didn't take typing class, I took wood shop, auto shop, and cooking class. Everyone made fun of me for taking cooking class, till they saw all the chicks, I mean young women, I was working with. I can cook real good, but type real slow. I have yellow keys, with black letters on my keyboard, so that I can find the letters easier. Best five bucks I've spent on my pc.

Pat


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Gregush Portland Oregon on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 09:53 pm:

Took AG and was an unsuccessful member of the FFA in my freshmen year after that it was Drafting. Took art, cooking (it was the first year for the guys) typing (senor, low C or D) and worked in the library my senor year for my 4th English credit.
Funny thing is that when I retook typing in collage I got an A!
Still can't spell or put a good sentence together but I am fair at typing.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Justin Heim on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 10:00 pm:

asdfjkl;
asdfjkl;
asdfjkl;
I can still hear my typewriting teacher chanting that out like a metronome as all of us banged away on our IBM Selectrics trying not to fall asleep.

By the way, what ever happened to pica and elite type in the fonts on computers?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Dewey, N. California on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 11:08 pm:

WE had a "learn to type at home" record set, but never kept up with it--this was high school days. In Junior College, I was a business major, so took a whole year of typing (also I am left handed and can't read my own handwriting!). Computers were starting to come in when I was in JC, and I took a class in "model Office" where I spent some time typing in punch cards, so the class was useful even then. Also took 'Business machines" and learned how to touch calculate on the old Ovillette (sp?) and the ten-key machines. BTW, back then the first semester of typing was on MANUAL typewriters!
Yep, typing has been good for me--when I went back to college in 1985, I bought a laptop typewriter that used heat sensitive paper so I could type my class notes--no matter how bad I typed, it was more legible than my handwriting! We had to do a paper in class one day, and the teacher demanded to know who came per-prepared with a typewritten paper. Had to show her my little typewriter to keep my grade!
BTW, I took Latin one year in High School and basically flunked out, helped me with Spanish class though. Femina Agricoli Amant--I think! (The women love the farmers). I still hold that Caesar's downfall was that he forgot how to decline "Retreat!"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Warren W. Mortensen on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 01:41 am:

Took typing in my Senior Year in High School and I'm glad I did... for more reasons than one. My class schedule arrived in August and my typing instructor was Miss L______y. Well, by the time school started her name had changed to Mrs. D______s. Had to be fresh out of teacher's college.

I'd sit at the back of the class and watch as she leaned over some kid up ahead of me. She wore about as short a skirt as the dress code allowed and had a cute little mole right on... well, never mind.

Hard to believe she's probably collecting Social Security today.

I've usually gotten the writing assignments at Work over the years because I can type faster than most of my peers.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Manuel Voyages, ACT Australia on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 01:57 am:

These warming up exercises were used for teaching. Supposed to have every letter of the alphabet---

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy old dog"
and
Trixie was given a prize for her blackberry and quince jam.

Cheers,
Manuel in Oz


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By samuel pine on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 02:10 am:

Hate to report my report card of 1959
math D 1234
english D 1234
History F+ 123
science A+ 1234
Band A+ 1234
Drafting A+ 1234
Phys Ed D- 123
sewing class A 34
problems of democracy F 1

1st off we did have guidance counciler, don't you think that dope would say I am in the wrong field?
cause I wanted shop /my father called shop dumb bell school. Anyways typing is to a piano you never forget it. 2nd I won over the ole man I own
a machine shop. And sewing & typing with girls was
the idea in the first place !!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By G.R.Cheshire on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 07:19 am:

The Dean of boys would not allow me too take typing class because "I was just looking to meet girls" He was still alive and attended our 40th class re-union... of course I had to rub it in! Mom taught me to type with a record player and a Smith Corona!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Noel D. Chicoine, MD, Pierre, SD on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 08:46 am:

When I took typing in high school, there were only 3 boys and 20 girls in the class. The teacher wouldn't let the boys use the 3 electric typewriters as she felt the girls needed them as they'd be more likely to be secretaries. We used the old Underwood manuals and I could type 70 WPM. Mom was a legal secretary and could type over 100WPM, out typing her Remington Selectric and having to wait for the machine to finish the line. She had a plaque on her desk that said "I'm not a fast typist, I'm not a slow typist. I'm a half-fast typist." We had a portable electric at home I practiced on. I bet I've typed hundreds more than most girls in that class.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary H. White - Sheridan, MI on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 11:55 am:

The problem I have with the computer keyboard is I get sloppy as it's so easy to correct mistakes. On the other hand (remember that phrase) easy corrections are a blessing as I had a pretty severe injury to my left forearm and type with only the index finger on the left hand while using my right hand normally. Get along pretty good and don't even think about it when typing.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Semprez-Templeton, CA on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 12:00 pm:

I took typing in jr. college only to discover that the cute girls had taken it in High School. Most of the young women in my Jr college typing class, had evidently figured out that "being big boned with nice personalities" wasn't going to cut it for them.

After about three hours of FJ FJ FJ FJ, I dropped the class. My poor typing skills did pay off, though later, when I was selected the worlds master at creating Lorem Ipsum by our secretarial staff at my first real job!

Oh the shame!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Norman T. Kling on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 12:10 pm:

I took one semester of typing and I can still use the keyboard without hunt and peck. However I guess I am kind of dyslexic because I get e and I mixed up. Same finger different hand. I am what I refer to as "left handed in both hands". If someone asks what that means, I say," both hands are like a right hander's left hand."
Norm


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Donnie Brown North Central Arkansas on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 12:56 pm:

My best and most helpful class was math, Geometry has been with me for life. Typing was OK. I wish had tried a little harder. The class I took with (and for) the girls was Home-Ed. I was the one who brought it up about going there, and talked two of my friends (the other problem children in school) into taking Home-Ed. The principal said "No way" so with the help of our parents (and my dads lawyer) we took it to the school board for approval. They very reluctantly said "OK". We learned about cooking, sewing, some "girl" personal stuff we were not really interested in, and Girls, Girls, Girls. The following year "Girls" (were reluctantly allowed) into the shop class. The same year the "Girls" came to shop class is the same year my two friends (remember them from above) and myself took on the "hair length" code. We were the first three boys with shoulder length and longer hair. And for Will who said, "only two types of students that took typing,females and those who wanted to be females" or something like that. None of us ever wanted to "be a female", just "be with a female". and even to this day we are still remembered at our school/class reunions for being problem children. But for problem children I graduated from the 11th grade and one of my friends was salutatorian when he graduated. I had all A's except a B- in typing. The other friend was mostly B's. Sorry for thread drift, but the post brought up some old memories, and I did use the word "typing" a few times :-)


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