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AllaN01Bear

(24,921 posts) Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:48 AM Apr 25

typewriters.

what did u learn to blind touch type on? i learned on an ibem selectric . what did u learn on?

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typewriters. (Original Post) AllaN01Bear Apr 25 OP

Manual SheltieLover Apr 25 #1

Typing class manual justaprogressive Apr 25 #2

Manual in school. Got up to 60 words a day. mobeau69 Apr 25 #3

Pretty sure an electric IBM in high school early 70s. Typed my thesis on a manual. CoopersDad Apr 25 #4

Classic Underwood in high school. LastDemocratInSC Apr 25 #5

Manual typewriter. Little did I know in the 1960s that typing would actually help in work decades later. Silent Type Apr 25 #6

Manual black old typewriter. OLDMDDEM Apr 25 #7

A Royal manual from the 1940s. no_hypocrisy Apr 25 #8

SheltieLover

(67,212 posts)

1. Manual

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Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:54 AM

Apr 25

justaprogressive

(3,494 posts)

2. Typing class manual

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Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:08 PM

Apr 25

My Hermes portable lasted me through college

mobeau69

(11,944 posts)

3. Manual in school. Got up to 60 words a day.

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Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:08 PM

Apr 25

CoopersDad

(3,175 posts)

4. Pretty sure an electric IBM in high school early 70s. Typed my thesis on a manual.

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Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:14 PM

Apr 25

I love them as machines go and before computers you needed to have one.

LastDemocratInSC

(4,016 posts)

5. Classic Underwood in high school.

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Fri Apr 25, 2025, 12:17 PM

Apr 25

When I graduated from college in 1972 and started doing software development I was the only person in my group who had typing training. I was able to sail through assignments while the others hunted and pecked and taught themselves bad keyboard habits.