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Old 06-21-2011, 05:09 PM   #61
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It wasn't a personal computer.
You took your daughter to an office to learn to type?
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Old 06-21-2011, 05:12 PM   #62
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probably:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

Writers and journalists used these from the end of the 19 century until about the microcomputer boom in the 1980's.
Yes, good snark, except for one thing:

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I also taught her to type (on a computer) before she learned to write.
(emphasis added)

Typewriters, even electric ones, aren't computers.
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haha, PWNED.
Major FAIL! Major typo!
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