[TUHS] Re: Early Unix and Keyboard Skills

John P. Linderman wrote in <CAC0cEp9v1ZhTgEFMNGMGH1GhXo9V87QiOPfbbCuMG1y6D9Esaw(a)mail.gmail.com>: |When I was in high school (in the early sixties) I tried to sign up for |typing, which was taught on manual typewriters. I was told that the class |was for girls only, and I was turned away. I never did develop good typing |skills. I'm pretty much a two-fingered typist. Ironically, I have probably This can be a winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4nX0Xrn-wo (The classic.) |done more typing than 90% of the female classmates who were allowed to take |the class. These machine-gunners are in another league per se from my modest point of view. Ten finger thunderstorms. |Precision figured mightily in those days, which may also have pre-dated |white-out. Eliminating an error was a big deal. Now it's dead easy, and |auto-correct has already fixed several errors in this message. Since i now own a (used!!) smartphone i unfortunately have to live with such things when doing my little bit of SMS messaging. It is terrible. Ooften do i have to delete the word entirely to unlock the screen. Ach! for the Asians who commit suicide because they messed up a calligraphical painting. It seems to me TUHS has lost its Sender: message header btw, which longs for fixing as it is SHOULD in RFC 5322 in this ML case (except for Warren himself, maybe). --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)