On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 09:15:48AM -0800, David Barto via cctalk wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:15 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < > > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> And, yes, even as a male I had typing in high school. > >> > > > > I had typing as an elective class in 7th grade in 1984. It gave me the > > ability to type in programs faster. > > > > Sellam > > > > C: i took typing as a senior in 1985. The lady was a former military > > officer, in her 60s or later. Everyone was scared shirtless of her. 1 > > puerto rican girl who sat up front could do 90wpm. Me, I sat in the back. > > I'm still a very flawed typist. Iow I suck. > > I took typing as an elective in summer school before my senior year of high > school, in preparation for typing papers at college. I failed the class > because I would backspace and overtype the wrong character. > > In college I used UCSD Pascal on Terak???s. So I could backspace to my hearts > content. > > Still not a very good typist, and at least now the backspace doesn???t screw > up what I send out. > > (I took care to count the number of times I had to backspace while typing > this message: 5) > > David >
I took typing in high school as an elective. I loved it. I was the only guy in the class.. -- Bill Duncan, | http://billduncan.org/ bdun...@beachnet.org | - linux/unix/network/cloud +1 416 697-9315 | - performance engineering, SRE
