6 Feb
2021
6 Feb
'21
11:33 p.m.
I learned on a manual typewriter in 7th grade, but I got fast on a
keypunch. To this day i don't use the right shift key, because it didn't
work on a keypunch.
At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch typist. That's why vi
commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right
under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but
when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a
line of grad students made me put it back.
Mary Ann
On 2/6/21 9:22 AM, Ron Natalie wrote:
One of the smartest things my mother did was make me
take typing in
summer school one year. Little did she or I knew that being able to
type 60WPM was going to become a very important asset in my eventual
career.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Clem Cole" <clemc(a)ccc.com <mailto:clemc@ccc.com>>
To: "Will Senn" <will.senn(a)gmail.com <mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>>
Cc: "TUHS main list" <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
<mailto:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>>
Sent: 2/6/2021 11:55:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:57 PM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I did see mention a while back about a TOPS-10 typing tutor, not
> unix, but in the spirit - surely there's some unix history around
> typing tutors.
>
> Nah I just learned to push harder on the ASR-33 keys ;-)
> Funny, back-in-the-day, the local public HS had a typing class for
> the girls, which two of my sisters took. The all-male prep-school
> where my dad taught and my brothers and I all went, had nothing. But
> I had access to an ASR-33 and just migrated to it.
>
> To this day, my wife (who is a concert pianist/organist) can touch
> type but she is amazed at watching me with my 2, 3 or 4 finger style.
>
> Clem
> ᐧ