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Originally Posted by DNSB
For me, the typing class I took in school is one of the few classes that taught a skill that I actually used after school. The typewriter is pretty much obsolete but those hours learning to touch type have stood me in good stead over the decades of using computers.
I am still somewhat surprised by the number of computer users who are using the biblical method of typing (AKA seek and ye shall find!).
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Me too - I took typing in high school around 1980 and it was a big help once I got to college and also as I later adapted to computer use in the work world.
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Originally Posted by OtinG
Just some fun facts:
Computers greatly affected the way many people edited their written work. With typewriters, which were very labor intensive, people tended to spend less time editing and reorganizing the papers they wrote because it was too inconvenient to have to retype several pages.
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When I was in college only computer science majors had computers. The rest of us were still using typewriters. We spent a lot of time revising our work with pen/pencil and paper before committing to typing it up.