Did you learn to type on a typewriter?
@DocAndersen (54399)
United States
December 25, 2018 7:24am CST
One of the things I got from my father was an old typewriter. I added one similar to the one I learned on many years ago recently. My dad left me his portable Royal. I found a standup Royal like the one he had in his home office.
In part that is to honor my father. But also the first thing I ever sold as a writer was written on that typewriter.
I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
How did you learn how to type?
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@LadyDuck (478236)
• Italy
26 Dec 18
@DocAndersen I still have my portable Olivetti and an electric Triumph.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
I used to have an olivetti, I need to get one for my collection!!!
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@AKRao24 (27422)
• India
25 Dec 18
I owned a Ramington rand portable type writer when I was just 25 years old and I used to type my articles on that to submit in local news papers as free lance journalist. But I could never learn how to type systematically. I used to use my two fingers to type which I still do!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
we used to call that hunting (as in hunting for a letter to press)
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@DocAndersen Is the software still around.did you kids pick up on this.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
27 Dec 18
@amadeo My kids are all in their 20's, we haven't used the program for a long time.
@Hannihar (130204)
• Israel
25 Dec 18
@DocAndersen
Yes I started out learning to type on a typewriter and then later on on a computer.
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@Hannihar (130204)
• Israel
27 Dec 18
@DocAndersen
I typed on a typewriter and learned I think on the computer in the States.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
27 Dec 18
@Hannihar learning how to type is such a critical skill
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
It is funny it is wholly when you were born and where you were born as to the order.
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@responsiveme (22925)
• India
26 Dec 18
My father was adept at the type writer and I would try my hand at that as a kid . His was an Olivetti.
But regular use of the qwerty keyboard is only on the computer ,I am afraid.
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@responsiveme (22925)
• India
26 Dec 18
@DocAndersen no it was only childish things like Zzzzzzzz , sometimes we wrote a page....we used to try to type there but not learn as such .
Unlike the computer there was no undo button.
There were typing schools that time though but I never went
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@responsiveme I learned in business class in High School :-)
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
did you learn to type on your father's typewriter?
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@amitkokiladitya (171910)
• Agra, India
25 Dec 18
I have typed on a typewriter buy never learned how to do it professionally
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@amitkokiladitya (171910)
• Agra, India
26 Dec 18
@DocAndersen it was my uncle's typewriter. I was very fond of pressing the keys on it
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
I suspect sometimes it depends how much you have to type in your job!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@amitkokiladitya I remember those days!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
Typing is such a part of what I do, but it is very frustrating!
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@marguicha (227774)
• Chile
25 Dec 18
I did and I wish the typewriters could be used again.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
The old manual typewriters are a great workout for your fingers!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
I learned formally in a high school business class. I got up to 100 WPM (if you didn't count errors)
@andriaperry (118747)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Dec 18
All by myself back in 2000. BTW .... HEYYYYYY!
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@JohnRoberts (109845)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Dec 18
I have always been a fast hunt and peck.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
26 Dec 18
I understand, that system works for a lot of people!
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