I learned on a electric typewriter in school. I hated it, thought it was the most useless bunk I had ever done.... Those letter combinations haunted me in my nightmares... That summer I was at home on BBS's and such and finally realized after hours of typing I had never looked at the keyboard... Later some of my first jobs were doing data entry, the only problem I had with that was that many dumb terminal data entry keyboards don't use home row numbers and I've never been good with the number pad... They often dedicate those keys to functions and special characters.
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Originally Posted by Elsi
I'm a touch typist with a pretty fast wpm rate. I find I make more errors today than say 15-20 years ago, but to some extent it's because I'm often multitasking when I'm typing. Like now, for example, the hubby is watching a show on the History channel. So at the same time that I'm composing my response and typing, my brain is processing the words that my ears are picking up. I'm not paying much attention to the TV, but as it is about 15 feet away, I cannot ignore it totally.
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It might also be the quality of the keyboards... We used to have responsive keyboards, most of what is sold today is spongy.... Take a look at
Unicomp they still manufacture buckling spring keyboards.
-MJ