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Article #621474Re: Old word processors
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:26
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:26
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: > 2) As described above, "touch typing" was more than just knowing > the keyboard--those other aspects, too, led to better > accuracy and speed. They were taught in typing class. > To this day, some computer keyboards have a little rise on the > F and J keys to aid the user to find the "home row" for their > fingers. My Dell and HP keyboards have them. > > 3) For myself, using the Teletype in timesharing helped by > typing skills. junior high in the 50s, I found an old discarded typewriter and taught myself how to touch type (got to 50-60 words/min) later in collete, I didn't notice particular problems with 026, 029, 2741 (80-100 words/min) ... but I found that tty33 ... required significant more pressure and much more distance ... distance compareable to discarded typewriter when I was kid ... but more resistance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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