General Discussion

a;sldkfj - first exercise in typing class!
I, too, took typing in high school - class of '65 - the only guy in the class (planned it that way - and DID marry one of the girls from that class - but that's another story.....). I am a piano player so the manual dexterity was not a problem.
One of my high school graduation gifts was a Smith/Corona typewriter that I took to college. I earned money typing papers for others, using that 'new' erasable typing paper! I'd charge $1 a page, $2 if it was after 10pm and was due the next morning!
My next wife was a legal secretary and we bought a 'professional' electric that she used at home and also did typing for both work and 'extra' money. We were 'late' to move into the 'computer' age because that 'electric' was so good and she was so fast.
Our first 'computer' typing was on a 'dot matrix' that looked like something from a newsroom movie! It had the 'spooled' paper that you had to tear off the edges after the printing was done.
It took a while - but now - I wonder what my dear typing teacher from 1964 would think of what we have now!