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Thunderbird Club
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Yep. I got pretty good on an IBM Selectric speedball…
I hit about 65 words a minute back in the day, two handed home row key alignment, no peeking. But 90% of my typing is done on an iPad touch screen these days where I only use one finger or sometimes two if I’m in a hurry. Don’t know how many WPM I hit these days but I’m sure it’s no where near 65.
I had typing last year of high school. Still touch-type on keyboard at 45-50 wpm, down from a high of 70-75.
Typing on my phone, like now, I'm all thumbs
My dad was in computers in the 60s 70s and 80s and told us that learning to type was a waste of time. He had an argument with one of the teachers in high school about it too. Said that even through "computers are the future" there was no point learning to type as it was unlikely that everyone would have a terminal on their desk, only the secretaries would.
It looks like the first amp I got to play through and use regularly when I first started playing. That was in the late 70s, so it's been a while. It was an older friend's amp. I have long regretted not trying to buy it. But I doubt he would have sold it anyway.
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What did it say?I think the whole re-licked guitar craze is kinda silly, but this one really spoke to me….
treble geetar Thursday!
No. Shop. And more shop. I knew I wasn't going to be a secretary. Now someone went and invented the PC and now even every blasted phone needs to be typed on as well. Voice to text often gets a little sketchy to say the least. Even after college and graduate school I still type weird. (I rarely use the index finger on my left hand for some reason and it kind of just sticks up in the air most of the time.) But if you think my typing is bad you ought to see my handwriting. My wife and secretary can interpret but that's often about it. Maybe I was destined to be a doctor and missed that calling. I am left-handed but I can write almost as well or badly with my right hand.
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My wife is really fast but her sister was at 140 when tested in her early 20s. I can't even think that fast.I had typing last year of high school. Still touch-type on keyboard at 45-50 wpm, down from a high of 70-75.
Typing on my phone, like now, I'm all thumbs
You can always take off the headstock and put it in one of the pockets.Seeing that reminds me: I talked to Gator. That bag won't fit the 67 NR.
That's just Chuck disguised as BV.
You're talking a different kind of speedball, right?
"95 is the route you were on, it was not the speed limit sign".
Typing: for some odd reason, I wanted to learn so took it in Jr High AND all years of High School. Easy credit. I had no ambitions of working in an office (I'm a tech guy). The school taught 'touch typing'. Not only don't you look at the keyboard, they had plastic caps on all of them to defeat the temptation. We had to learn how to take the entire (manual) typewriter apart and put it back together again. I loved that because that's how my brain works. I had no trouble getting 45 then 60 WPM on speed tests. Then, for decades, I never saw or used a typewriter again.
I had no idea that typing skills would ever be useful until home computers blossomed into what we have today. I was an early Apple II clone geek but even then the typing was used for writing BASIC or Machine code. One day Word Processing became a 'thing' and if you couldn't type and didn't want to learn, you were left in the dust. Fast forward to the end of my (field, technical) working career, I was on a team of technical writers, later supervising the team. My typing world came full circle.
For mobile phones and tablets I'm a one finger guy. That's just me. I don't care to use thumbs or type like I'm on a terminal or laptop.
I was also another Shop Class guy - Jr High and HS. It served me well but I learned I'm not meant for woodworking.
I had no idea that typing skills would ever be useful until home computers blossomed into what we have today. I was an early Apple II clone geek but even then the typing was used for writing BASIC or Machine code. One day Word Processing became a 'thing' and if you couldn't type and didn't want to learn, you were left in the dust. Fast forward to the end of my (field, technical) working career, I was on a team of technical writers, later supervising the team. My typing world came full circle.
For mobile phones and tablets I'm a one finger guy. That's just me. I don't care to use thumbs or type like I'm on a terminal or laptop.
I was also another Shop Class guy - Jr High and HS. It served me well but I learned I'm not meant for woodworking.
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I loved that the best. Took it every chance I got. Didn't care for metal shop. You could do something in class and actually have something visible and useful to show for it. For a short time, I even wondered about teaching shop. Shop was in most HSs here and now its NOT it most HSs. Only a couple here in a big city. So now most kids not only can't read, do math and other basics at previously accepted levels, they're never introduced to a possible non college/trade options which won't drive them in to huge debt by "Big Higher Education." And they never get to show off the good to awful stuff they made in HS!
I couldn't have said that any better.
Yep, wood shop, metal shop, auto shop, drafting, were all classes I took in my high school years 80-84. I still live near the HS I graduated from. I’m sure those classes no longer exist. Might be interesting to go by some day and see. The auto shop was well equipped with even a gas station style hydraulic rack/lift that you drove over and was concealed in the ground. Not like the 2 and four post styles that are common now. Metal shop taught oxy/acetylene, arc(stick), and was starting with MIG welding. All that made HS tolerable for sure. All kinds of stuff I learned in those classes are things I still use today. I only wish I kept my welding skills going from back then.
I also took typing. Got an A but actually never could type without looking. Now I’m ok at a keyboard but just hate sitting down to type long emails or documents.
I also took typing. Got an A but actually never could type without looking. Now I’m ok at a keyboard but just hate sitting down to type long emails or documents.
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Looking good! I wouldn’t pull the frets to stain the board.
My dad, the great futurist:
In the 60s foresaw that computers would be important; learned programming and began working in the field. Worked on the first computer bought by the City of London (England).
In the 70s saw the importance of computers in accounting, but science and engineering? Nobody is going to want to wait for their program to be batched overnight. Slide rules and paper plans will be there forever.
In the 80s called personal computers toys because you can't do real computing on them (batching accounting overnight).
When Gone Plaid and I were in junior high school it would have been all girls, there were no girls in shop class that I can remember either. Gone Plaid use to take a horse and buggy to school.
I just missed them.
