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Old 02-18-2007, 01:13 PM
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Default Re: Test your typing speed

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Originally Posted by JanH
It's sad to date myself in the era of manual typewriters. Sigh. Our high school class had only a handful of electric IBMs. We had to rotate in order to be able to type on those. I also typed for the school newspaper so I got to use them more regularly. I still can't believe newspaper people used to type on those manual ones for eons before electric. They were HARD to type on.
Well, Jan, I'm dating myself with you, my high school had the same set up -- we had 1/3 electric IBMs and the rest manual typewriters. During summers I worked for a small town newspaper and they had only manuals and they had been pretty beat up and were a pain to use. Literally. My hands would ache every night.
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