7 Feb
2021
7 Feb
'21
12:56 a.m.
On Feb 6, 2021, at 9:22 AM, Ron Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> 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.
My mother also insisted that I take typing as a summer school class because “In
college you will have to type papers for your professors”. She having been a professor of
English at Perdue University.
I took the class and failed because I would backspace and overstrike with the correct
letter.
After I got to college I used UCSD Pascal and so typing a backspace to erase the previous
letter was fine.
I returned to HS and told the typing instructor that I now type 40 WPM flawlessly because
I use a computer, not something with paper. He was not impressed.
The HS replaced the IBM Selectrics with cheap PC clones the next year.
David